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For most patients with chronic, progressive illnesses, maintaining good quality of life (QoL), with preserved functional capacity, is just as crucial as prolonging survival. Patients with heart failure (HF) experience much worse QoL and effort intolerance than both the general population and people with other chronic conditions, since they present a ...
Maurizio Volterrani+21 more
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The effects of the Affordable Care Act on seasonal agricultural workers
Abstract This study investigates the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) policies (Medicaid expansion, health insurance premium subsidy, and tax penalty) on farmworkers' health insurance coverage and healthcare utilization. Using the National Agricultural Worker Survey, we find that the ACA policies substantially raised the share of seasonal ...
Kwabena B. Donkor, Jeffrey M. Perloff
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Surveillance on Self-report: A Trial of Health and Safety Monitoring in Occupational Settings [PDF]
M. N. Haque
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"Working in an underground mine presents many unique challenges. One significant challenge is providing adequate lighting for miners to work safely. The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) identifies an underground coal mine as the ...
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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ABSTRACT To better understand what facilitates reconciliation after violent conflict, we examined the relevance of intergroup contact, conflict appraisals and emotions for reconciliation in post‐conflict Colombia. The first study with Colombian students (N1 = 260) was run shortly after the peace treaty with the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces ...
Helen Landmann+2 more
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Occupational safety and health in the agricultural sector: a bibliographic review. [PDF]
Mendoza Galvis DJ, Vega Molina AL.
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Systematic Health, Environment and Safety Activities: Do They Influence Occupational Environment, Behaviour and Health? [PDF]
Steffen Torp, Trond Riise, Bente E. Moen
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Manufacture of paint and allied coating products [PDF]
"his document provides guidance for protecting workers involved in the manufacture of paint and allied coating products. The phrase "paint and allied coating products" (SIC 2851) refers to a variety of products having the broad functions of surface ...
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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Abstract Uncertainty factors (UFs) are used to account for uncertainties and variability when setting exposure limits or guidance values. Starting from a proposal of a single UF of 100 to extrapolate from an animal NOAEL to a human acceptable exposure, the aspects of uncertainty and number of UFs have diversified and today there are several risk ...
Gunnar Johanson+2 more
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Occupational Health and Safety Management in Polish Enterprises Implementing Total Quality Management Systems [PDF]
Daniel Podgórski
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