Objective: To investigate the prevalence and association between functional disability and health conditions in elderly people. Method: A cross-sectional, population-based study with 1,705 elderly residents in urban region of Florianópolis, Brazil, from September 2009 to July 2010. The functional disability was classified according to the difficulty in accomplishing six basic activities of dail...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relation between iron status and physical working capacity, and to assess the effect of oral iron treatment on these variables, in athletes with borderline iron status. METHODS Blood haemoglobin (Hb), packed cell volume (PCV), red blood cell count (RBC), serum iron, total iron binding capacity (TIBC), and ferritin determinations were compared in 71 male and 18 female...

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The effect of deworming vs deworming and weekly Iron-Folic acid (IFA) on growth, hemoglobin level, and physical work capacity of children was studied. Children from three rural schools studying from 4th to 7th standard were selected. One set of school children were given deworming tablet (400 mg albendezole) once in six months while the second school children received deworming tablet along wit...

BACKGROUND Grip muscle force has always been used to assess functional limitations in elderly. Its use as a tool to assess work capacity has never been described in the literature. OBJECTIVE To describe the patent determinants of grip strength and the usefulness of its measurement in assessing workability index in the healthcare sector. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study conducted in a...

Work-related physical activity (PA), in terms of peak loads and sustained and/or repetitive contractions, presents risk factors for the development of muscular pain and disorders. However, PA as a training tailored to the employee's work exposure, health, and physical capacity offers prevention and rehabilitation. We suggest the concept of "Intelligent Physical Exercise Training" relying on evi...