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How to Define the Content of a Job-Specific Worker's Health Surveillance for Hospital Physicians? [PDF]

Safety and Health at Work, 2016
Background: A job-specific Worker's Health Surveillance (WHS) for hospital physicians is a preventive occupational health strategy aiming at early detection of their diminished work-related health in order to improve or maintain physician's health and ...
Martijn M. Ruitenburg, Monique H.W. Frings-Dresen, Judith K. Sluiter   +2 more
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Feasibility and acceptability of a workers’ health surveillance program for hospital physicians

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2015
Objectives: A Workers’ Health Surveillance (WHS) program is an occupational health strategy used to detect and address the health of individual workers to improve their ability to work.
Martijn M. Ruitenburg, Marie-Christine J. Plat, Monique H.W. Frings-Dresen, Judith K. Sluiter   +3 more
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Workers’ health surveillance targeting mental health: evaluation of a training

Occupational Medicine, 2021
Abstract Background Mental health complaints occur frequently among healthcare workers. A workers’ health surveillance mental health module (WHS-MH) was found to be effective in improving work functioning of nurses, although not implemented regularly.
Los, F. S., van der Molen, H. F., de Boer, A. G. E. M., Hulshof, Carel T. J., Ketelaar, S. M., Nieuwenhuijsen, K.   +5 more
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Mental Health Surveillance Tools for Sea Workers

TransNav, the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, 2022
This article presents the results of the works of the PROMETHEAS project, which focuses on the mental health of sea workers. This project is carried out at the Maritime University of Szczecin and brings together a consortium of various maritime institutions from Slovenia, Greece, Spain, Finland and Great Britain.
Dramski, Mariusz, Koivisto, Heikki, Gregorič, Tomaž, de Melo Rodriguez, German, Chronopoulos, Aris, Ziarati, Reza   +6 more
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Social representations of health surveillance among workers [PDF]

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2008
This is a qualitative, exploratory-interpretative study, with the purpose of investigating the social representations of health surveillance among members of the National Health Surveillance Agency - ANVISA, in Rio Grande do Sul State. It was found that health surveillance is represented by subjects as a process that, despite the contradictions, is ...
Souza, Dirciara Barañano, Dall'Agnol, Clarice Maria   +1 more
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Social determinants of an occupational lung disease: Workers’ narratives on silicosis

SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2023
Silicosis is a preventable occupational lung disease caused by inhaled silica dust. Solutions to prevent silicosis ranging from engineering controls to respirator use have been validated for nearly a century, but many workers are still at-risk of this ...
Yanni Liang, Katherine E. McCoy, Carrie D. Tomasallo, Jonathan G. Meiman   +3 more
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Vigilância em saúde do trabalhador e promoção da saúde: aproximações possíveis e desafios Worker's health surveillance and health promotion: similarities and challenges

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2003
O trabalho pretende discutir as aproximações possíveis entre as práticas de Vigilância em Saúde do Trabalhador e o enfoque da promoção da saúde, bem como os distanciamentos e desafios da Vigilância em Saúde do Trabalhador em face dessa outra concepção de
Roberta Belizário Alves
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Process Evaluation of a Workers’ Health Surveillance Program for Meat Processing Workers [PDF]

Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 2016
Objective To evaluate the implementation process of a workers' health surveillance (WHS) program in a Dutch meat processing company. Methods Workers from five plants were eligible to participate in the WHS program. The program consisted of four evaluative components and an intervention component.
Berry J. van Holland, Sandra Brouwer, Michiel R. de Boer, Michiel F. Reneman, Remko Soer   +4 more
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Processo de vigilância em saúde do trabalhador Worker's Health Surveillance

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 1997
O presente texto insere-se na discussão da necessidade de aprofundamento das práticas de vigilância, muitas vezes, principalmente em países como o nosso, realizadas de forma empírica, carecendo de reflexão sobre suas bases técnicas e teóricas.
Jorge Mesquita Huet Machado
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An epidemiological analysis of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance in Kenya, 2016 to 2018

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background The poliovirus has been targeted for eradication since 1988. Kenya reported its last case of indigenous Wild Poliovirus (WPV) in 1984 but suffered from an outbreak of circulating Vaccine-derived Poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in 2018.
Brook Tesfaye, Alieu Sowe, Ngina Kisangau, John Ogange, Stephen Ntoburi, Irene Nekar, Charles Muitherero, Yaya Camara, Carolyne Gathenji, Daniel Langat, Kibet Sergon, Hilary Limo, Rosemary Nzunza, Shem Kiptoon, David Kareko, Iheoma Onuekwusi   +15 more
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