BACKGROUND The importance of staying active instead of bed rest has been acknowledged in the management of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). This emphasizes the potential benefits of adjusting work to fit the employee's remaining work ability. Despite part-time sick leave being an official option in many countries, its effectiveness has not been studied yet. We have designed a randomized contro...

The planning of an adequate nutritional support for meeting the metabolic requirements of sick neonates is a tedious time consuming calculation, needs practical expert knowledge and involves the risk of introducing possibly fatal errors. We therefore developed the interactive support system VIE–PNN for calculating the composition of parenteral nutrition solutions (PNS) for neonates at intensive...

in this research, we investigated basic symptoms of syndrome in illnesses of sick buildings. we designed a questionnaire and asked from male of dormitory residence. questions of the questionnaire were more about known symptoms of buildings (shortness of breath, inflammation, swelling and burning eyes, runny nose, malaise and fatigue, drowsiness, headache) exacerbations time intervals in the res...

This paper investigates possible determinants of teacher absenteeism due to sickness in Danish daycare institutions. We differentiate between characteristics at the individual (teacher) level and characteristics at the workplace level which may potentially determine absenteeism. In particular, it is investigated whether work pressure measured by the child-to-teacher ratio, i.e. the number of ch...

reports which describe sick sinus syndrome due to malignant lymphoma have been rare and only eight cases have been reported until now. this is a case of sick sinus syndrome and superior vena cava syndrome secondary to invasion of occult malignant lymphoma of the lung in a 60 years old male. there were no symptoms or signs of malignancy before the first presentation with sick sinus syndrome. pat...

The nursing records of the 242 patients who used the domiciliary night nursing care service in Newham Health District showed that three distinct groups of patients were nursed during 1979 at a cost of 8.8 pounds a day. Forty-three elderly chronically sick and five disabled patients aged under 50 received care for more than 28 days, 63 patients had terminal cancer, and 131 needed short-term care...

BACKGROUND Psychiatric and mood disorders may hamper the efficiency of workers and cause absenteeism. MATERIAL AND METHODS Revision of sick leaves related to schizophrenia, bipolar diseases, anxiety, depression and adaptive disorders that were granted in Spain in the period January- December 2011. The mean number of days off work for each disease and the costs per each labor day lost were cal...

Wear full sleeve clothes and long dresses to cover the limbs; Use mosquito coils, repellents and electric vapour mats during the daytime; Use mosquito nets—to protect babies, old people and others, who may rest during the day. The effectiveness of such nets can be improved by treating them with permethrin (pyrethroid insecticide). Curtains (cloth or bamboo) can also be treated with insecticide ...