Gaetano Pieraccini: Public Health giant who created Italian Social Medicine
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health, 2016 It’s well known all over the world that Italy is the birthplace of Bernardino Ramazzini (1633 - 1714), the real founder of occupational medicine, and that Italian doctors had a great importance in scientific and cultural development in occupational ...
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COVID-19 immunizations in occupational medicine
Medycyna Pracy, 2021 This article discusses issues related to exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in the work environment and employee’s vaccination against COVID-19. The new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus identified as the etiologic agent of COVID-19 prompted the World Health Organization (WHO)
Ernest P. Kuchar +1 more
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Government laboratory worker with lung cancer: comparing risks from beryllium, asbestos, and tobacco smoke. [PDF]
, 2000 Occupational medicine physicians are frequently asked to establish cancer causation in patients with both workplace and non-workplace exposures. This is especially difficult in cases involving beryllium for which the data on human carcinogenicity are ...
Balmes, JR, Steinmaus, C
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Occupational Health in Mountainous Kyrgyzstan
Annals of Global Health, 2015 Background: In the period of transition from a centralized economy to the market economy, occupational health services in Kyrgyzstan have survived through dramatic, detrimental changes.
Kenesh O. Dzhusupov +3 more
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Reliability reconsidered: Cronbach's alpha and paediatric assessment in occupational therapy [PDF]
, 2009 Background / aim: Using reliable outcome measures is a necessity for the occupational therapy profession in enabling valid assessments of clients. Although Cronbach’s alpha is the most widely applied index of internal consistency reliability, there are
Spiliotopoulou, G
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A Case of Bowen’s Disease and Small-Cell Lung Carcinoma: Long-Term Consequences of Chronic Arsenic Exposure in Chinese Traditional Medicine [PDF]
, 2004 Chronic arsenic toxicity occurs primarily through inadvertent ingestion of contaminated water and food or occupational exposure, but it can also occur through medicinal ingestion.
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Development of the Occupational Performance Inventory of Sexuality and Intimacy (OPISI): Phase One [PDF]
, 2020 Background: The occupational therapy profession needs a framework to guide understanding of the occupational nature of sexuality and intimacy, assessment, intervention design, and measurement of outcomes.
Christy, Davis +6 more
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Occupational medicine and toxicology
Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 2006 This editorial is to announce the Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, a new Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal published by BioMed Central.
Fischer Axel, Groneberg David A
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Occupational Information in Occupational Medicine
Journal of UOEH, 1988 The International Classification of Diseases popularly referred to as 'ICD' has significantly improved accessibility to and promoted distribution of medical information. In the field of occupational health, the use of a standardized occupational classification system is also necessary for similar reasons.
K, Takahashi, T, Okubo
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Auditing Occupational Medicine [PDF]
Occupational Medicine, 1999 An important challenge facing the quality of practice in occupational medicine is a limited evidence-base, but equally important is the need to translate good evidence into high quality practice. Audit has an important role to play in addressing the determinants of variations in practice.
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