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Development and Validation of a Practical Instrument for Injury Prevention: The Occupational Safety and Health Monitoring and Assessment Tool (OSH-MAT)

Safety and Health at Work, 2018
Background: The Occupational Safety and Health Monitoring and Assessment Tool (OSH-MAT) is a practical instrument that is currently used in the German woodworking and metalworking industries to monitor safety conditions at workplaces. The 12-item scoring
Yi Sun, Martin Arning, Frank Bochmann, Jutta Börger, Thomas Heitmann   +4 more
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Effects of wearing different face masks on cardiopulmonary performance at rest and exercise in a partially double-blinded randomized cross-over study

Scientific Reports, 2023
The use of face masks became mandatory during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Wearing masks may lead to complaints about laboured breathing and stress. The influence of different masks on cardiopulmonary performance was investigated in a partially double-blinded ...
Eike-Maximillian Marek, Vera van Kampen, Birger Jettkant, Benjamin Kendzia, Bianca Strauß, Kirsten Sucker, Melanie Ulbrich, Anja Deckert, Hans Berresheim, Christian Eisenhawer, Frank Hoffmeyer, Simon Weidhaas, Thomas Behrens, Thomas Brüning, Jürgen Bünger   +14 more
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Impact of the automated dose dispensing with medication review on geriatric primary care patients drug use in Finland: a nationwide cohort study with matched controls

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2017
Objective: In an automated dose dispensing (ADD) service, medicines are dispensed in unit-dose bags according to administration times. When the service is initiated, the patient’s medication list is reconciled and a prescription review is conducted.
Juha Sinnemäki, Marja Airaksinen, Maria Valaste, Leena K. Saastamoinen   +3 more
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Assessing the effects of price regulation and freedom of choice on quality: evidence from the physiotherapy market

Health Economics Review, 2017
In health care, many aspects of the delivery of services are subject to regulation. Often the purpose of the regulated health care system is to encourage providers to keep costs down without skimping on quality.
Piia Pekola, Ismo Linnosmaa, Hennamari Mikkola   +2 more
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The Impact of Late-Career Health and Employment Shocks on Social Security and Other Wealth [PDF]

, 2007
About one-quarter of workers age 51 to 55 in 1992 developed health-related work limitations and about one-fifth were laid off from their jobs before age 62.
Dan Murphy, Gordon B. T. Mermin, Richard W. Johnson   +2 more
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No inflammatory effects after acute inhalation of barium sulfate particles in human volunteers

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022
Background Most threshold limit values are based on animal experiments. Often, the question remains whether these data reflect the situation in humans. As part of a series of investigations in our exposure lab, this study investigates whether the results
Christian Monsé, Götz Westphal, Monika Raulf, Birger Jettkant, Vera van Kampen, Benjamin Kendzia, Leonie Schürmeyer, Christoph Edzard Seifert, Eike-Maximilian Marek, Felicitas Wiegand, Nina Rosenkranz, Christopher Wegener, Rolf Merget, Thomas Brüning, Jürgen Bünger   +14 more
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Occupational-class trends in diagnosis-specific sickness absence in Finland: a register-based observational study in 2011–2021

BMJ Open
Objectives To examine the prevalence and days of long-term sickness absence (LTSA) by occupational class and by most important diagnostic groups in Finland during 2011–2021.Design Population-based cross-sectional study.Setting and participants National ...
Jenni Blomgren, Riku Perhoniemi
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Biomonitoring of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in firefighters at fire training facilities and in employees at respiratory protection and hose workshops

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionPolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are carcinogenic to humans and are formed by incomplete combustion. PAHs are always present during firefighting operations, and fire department members can be exposed to them in the workplace.MethodsIn ...
Stephan Koslitz, Birgit Heinrich, Heiko U. Käfferlein, Holger M. Koch, Tim Pelzl, Katrin Pitzke, Daniel Köster, Tobias Weiß, Volker Harth, Thomas Brüning, Thomas Behrens, Dirk Taeger   +11 more
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Second-line pharmacotherapy intensification after metformin monotherapy in type 2 diabetes: a nationwide register study from Finland during 2011–2022

BMC Health Services Research
Background In this nationwide register study, we examined the initiation of a second-line antidiabetic medicine (ADM) among new patients receiving regular metformin monotherapy in Finland during 2011–2022.
Hanna Rättö, Terhi Kurko, Pia Pajunen, Helena Kastarinen   +3 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
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