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Occupational Asthma

Chest, 1987
The workplace can be responsible for approximately one in 10 cases of adult-onset asthma. Two types of occupational asthma (OA) are distinguished by whether they arise after a latency period that is necessary for acquiring sensitization or as a result of acute exposure to irritant materials (irritant-induced asthma).
M, Chan-Yeung, J L, Malo
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Occupancy and Occupants’ Actions

2017
Occupants’ presence and actions within the built environment are crucial aspects related to understanding variations in energy use. Within this chapter, first, a nomenclature for the field of research dealing with occupants in buildings is defined. This nomenclature distinguishes between occupants’ presence and behavior, states and actions, adaptive ...
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Putting Occupation Into Practice: Occupation as Ends, Occupation as Means

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1998
Abstract This article addresses a difficulty that many occupational therapists experience: maintaining occupation as the core of their therapeutic intervention. This difficulty not only results from but also contributes to occupational therapy’s struggle with professional identity.
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Occupational asthma

Medical Clinics of North America, 1992
Occupational asthma is recognized as the most common form of occupational lung disease. Over 200 causative substances have been described. Major cases of occupational asthma are discussed along with valuable diagnostic approaches. Early diagnosis and removal of the patient from workplace exposure to the causative substance can prevent progression to ...
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Occupational rhinitis

Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 1992
To define occupational rhinitis, classify its various causes, review the steps in diagnosis, and describe the nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic management principles.A review of MEDLINE articles in English on occupation rhinitis for January 1, 1970, through December 31, 2001, was performed.
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Occupational asthma

Toxicology Letters, 1985
Occupational asthma is an important occupational respiratory disorder, both in terms of morbidity, disability and in the total number of cases. The two types of occupational asthma are classified on the basis of their temporal relationship to onset. Occupational asthma with latency reflects allergic occupational asthma and is a condition characterized ...
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Occupation and the Relevance of Primatology to Occupational Therapy

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1993
Abstract The adaptive functions of occupation during the phylogenetic history of the human species and the ontogenetic development of individual primates are examined through a review of relevant research of wild and captive nonhuman primates.
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The Law of Occupation Revisited: The Beginning of an Occupation

Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, 2007
AbstractThis article discusses the criteria for establishing the beginning of an occupation. To this end, it analyzes the wording and drafting history of IHL instruments as well as international case law. It also looks at the influence of human rights law, in particular the notion of “jurisdiction” as used in the ICCPR and the ECHR, on the concept of ...
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Occupation: Occupational Aspiration

2017
This chapter explores occupation as settings in which employment occurs and prospects for upward mobility exist. It introduces the reader to participants’ experiences in social worlds in which occupational aspirations are varied but, nonetheless, constrained by composite factors that interact and at times conflict.
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Occupational and “Non-occupational” Asbestosis in Finland

American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, 1968
Abstract Leo Noro, M.D., Director of the Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland, is the recipient of the 1968 William P. Yant Memorial Award. This award is presented by the American Industrial Hygiene Association to commemorate the leadership and breadth of contributions of Dr. William P. Yant in the field of industrial hygiene.
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