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Mental Health Surveillance Tools for Sea Workers

open access: yesTransNav, 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   +6 more
openaire   +4 more sources

HBM4EU Occupational Biomonitoring Study on e-Waste—Study Protocol

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Workers involved in the processing of electronic waste (e-waste) are potentially exposed to toxic chemicals. If exposure occurs, this may result in uptake and potential adverse health effects.
P. Scheepers   +17 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social representations of health surveillance among workers [PDF]

open access: yesRevista 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   +1 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Surveillance actions in worker's health and environment: analyses of the procedure carried out in gas stations by the Campinas Worker's Health Reference Center, Campinas, SP, Brazil [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Due to the changes in the contemporary labor world and their repercussions on health and environment, new challenges are posed to Worker's health Integrated Care from the Brazilian National Unified Health System.
Santos, Ana Paula Lopes dos   +1 more
core   +5 more sources

Social determinants of an occupational lung disease: Workers’ narratives on silicosis

open access: yesSSM: 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Workplace Health Promotion Embedded in Medical Surveillance: The Italian Way to Total Worker Health Program

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023
In 2011, NIOSH launched the Total Worker Health (TWH) strategy based on integrating prevention and health promotion in the workplace. For several years now, in Italy, this integration has led to the creation of workplace health promotion embedded in ...
N. Magnavita
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Workers' compensation in the United States: high costs, low benefits [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Studies suggest that income replacement is low for many workers with serious occupational injuries and illnesses. This review discusses three areas that hold promise for raising benefits to workers while reducing workers' compensation costs to employers:
Boden, Leslie
core   +2 more sources

Eradicating slave labour by 2030: the challenge of worker health surveillance.

open access: yesCiência & Saúde Coletiva, 2021
Eradicating modern slavery is a relevant scientific, social, and institutional challenge issue. Indeed, efforts are being made globally to understand, map, and eradicate contemporary slavery as a target of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
L. H. Leão   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Worker's Surveillance in the Primary Care: learning with Family Health team of João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil.

open access: yesCiência & Saúde Coletiva, 2017
This study analyzed the Worker's Surveillance activities of Family Health teams, based on the perceptions of physicians and nurses in the city of João Pessoa.
Luciana de Assis Amorim   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Benchmarking for Public Health Surveillance tasks on Social Media with a Domain-Specific Pretrained Language Model [PDF]

open access: yesNLPPOWER, 2022
A user-generated text on social media enables health workers to keep track of information, identify possible outbreaks, forecast disease trends, monitor emergency cases, and ascertain disease awareness and response to official health correspondence. This
Usman Naseem   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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