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Poor dental hygiene in pregnancy leading to submandibular cellulitis and intrauterine fetal demise: Case report and literature review

International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2013
Ludwig′s angina is an infectious process involving submandibular, sublingual, and submental spaces that can rapidly progress to hemodynamic instability and airway obstruction.
Soma Mukherjee, Surbhi Sharma, Laxmi Maru   +2 more
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Application of the behaviour-centred design to understand facilitators and deterrents of hand hygiene among healthcare providers: findings from a formative phase of a cluster randomised trial in the Kampala Metropolitan area

BMC Health Services Research
Background Hand hygiene is known to reduce healthcare-associated infections. However, it remains suboptimal among healthcare providers. In this study, we used the Behaviour-centered Design approach to explore the facilitators and deterrents to hand ...
Tonny Ssekamatte, Richard K. Mugambe, John Bosco Isunju, Rhoda K. Wanyenze, Aisha Nalugya, Christine Adyedo, Solomon T. Wafula, Esther Buregyeya, Rebecca Nuwematsiko, Joann Bateman, Julie Balen, Lynnette Lusenaka, Habib Yakubu, Christine L. Moe   +13 more
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Social Accountability for Safe and Sustainable Domestic Water Provision in Dar es Salaam and Morogoro [PDF]

, 2018
This paper reports the full results of a baseline survey on access to water for domestic use and social accountability in four districts of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city, and Morogoro, a provincial town around 200 kilometres west of Dar.
Kweka, Opportuna, Munro, Neil
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Interventions to improve healthcare workers’ hand hygiene compliance: a systematic review of systematic reviews [PDF]

, 2018
Objective: To synthesize the existing evidence base of systematic reviews of interventions to improve healthcare worker (HCW) hand hygiene compliance (HHC).
Boyce, Doronina, Gould, Jacqui Reilly, Jennifer MacDonald, Lesley Price, Lesley Shepherd, Lucyna Gozdzielewska, Mitchell, Paul Flowers, Ranji, Tracey Howe, Yvonne Watt   +12 more
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Work Disability, Early Retirement, and Loss of a Loved One in the World Trade Center Health Registry Cohort

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Existing research on the economic outcomes of 9/11 remains limited and has primarily focused on early retirement. Little is known about the prevalence of work disability and loss of a loved one and whether they are associated with survey attrition.
Jennifer Brite, Matthew Di Vitto, Janna Metzler   +2 more
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Severe Occupational Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis: A Case Series of Four Patients Requiring Lung Transplantation

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is an immune‐mediated interstitial lung disease triggered by repeated inhalation of organic or chemical antigens. Occupational exposures account for approximately 19% of all cases. Early diagnosis, identification of the responsible antigen(s), and immediate avoidance of exposure are crucial to prevent ...
Ludwig Frei‐Stuber, Judith Mohren, Ester Mau, Bernhard Werner, Rudolf A. Hatz, Jürgen Barton, Dennis Nowak   +6 more
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Monitoring sanitation and hygiene in the 2030 agenda for sustainable development: A review through the lens of human rights [PDF]

, 2016
International monitoring of drinking water and sanitation has been jointly carried out by WHO and UNICEF through their Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP). With the end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era in 2015, the JMP has proposed a post-2015
Flores Baquero, Óscar, Giné Garriga, Ricard, Jiménez Fernández de Palencia, Alejandro, Pérez Foguet, Agustí   +3 more
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The Association of Sleeping Duration and Sleep Problems With All‐Cause Mortality Among a Cohort of Industrial Workers Followed Up for 36 Years

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sleep duration is a well‐established factor associated with all‐cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality. Poor sleep quality was also suggested to affect all‐cause mortality risk among adults. The Cardiovascular Occupational Risk Factor determination in Israel Study (CORDIS) is a prospective cohort study of industrial workers ...
Gil Harari, Anat Gesser‐Edelsburg
wiley   +1 more source

Industrial health hazards and welfare facilities in Iowa industries, 1939. [PDF]

, 1939
This report is a preliminary survey of industrial establishments in the State which was conducted for the purpose of evaluating the industrial hygiene problems of ...

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Rüdin's Unpublished Family Study From the Early 1920s: “On the Inheritance of Manic‐Depressive Insanity”

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ernst Rüdin, an important and controversial figure in the history of psychiatric genetics, published only one major empirical study on siblings of dementia praecox (DP) probands in 1916. He conducted a parallel study of siblings of probands with manic‐depressive insanity (MDI), but the resulting monograph, written in the early 1920s, was left ...
Kenneth S. Kendler, Astrid Klee
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