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Compensation models for community health workers: Comparison of legal frameworks across five countries

open access: yesJournal of Global Health, 2020
Background Despite the life-saving work they perform, community health workers (CHWs) have long been subject to global debate about their remuneration. There is now, however, an emerging consensus that CHWs should be paid.
Madeleine Ballard   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A geospatial time-aware web interface to deliver information about air pollution and exposure in a big city and its surroundings [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2014
A GIS-based web-mapping system is presented, aimed at providing specialists, stakeholders and population with a simple, while scientifically rigorous, way to obtain information about people exposure to air pollution in the city of Rome (Italy).
M. P. Bogliolo, G. Contino
doaj   +1 more source

MicroRNA expression is associated with auditory dysfunction in workers exposed to ototoxic solvents and noise

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
This study is part of a project on early hearing dysfunction induced by combined exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and noise in occupational settings.
Renata Sisto   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Covid-19 Occupational Risk Incidence and Working Sectors Involved During the Pandemic in Italy

open access: yesSafety and Health at Work, 2023
Background: Starting from March 2020 until December 2021, different phases of Covid-19 pandemic have been identified in Italy, with several containing/lifting measures progressively enforced by the National government.
Fabio Boccuni   +8 more
doaj  

Exposure Assessment Suggests Exposure to Lung Cancer Carcinogens in a Painter Working in an Automobile Bumper Shop

open access: yesSafety and Health at Work, 2013
A 46-year-old man who had worked as a bumper spray painter in an automobile body shop for 15 years developed lung cancer. The patient was a nonsmoker with no family history of lung cancer.
Boowook Kim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unreported workers’ compensation claims to the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: Establishment factors

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2016
Background Studies suggest employers underreport injuries to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII); less is known about reporting differences by establishment characteristics.
S. Wuellner, Darrin A. Adams, D. Bonauto
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Airborne Levels of Lung Carcinogens at an Ascon Manufacturing Site

open access: yesAerosol and Air Quality Research, 2020
We assessed the airborne concentrations of the dust (both total and respirable), quartz, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and elemental carbon in an ascon manufacturing environment to determine the exposure to operators and the likelihood of developing ...
Kyeongmin Lee   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cyber physical systems for occupational safety at industrial sites: opportunities and challenges

open access: yesSerbian Journal of Management, 2022
In last decade, many Cyber Physical Systems CPSs for occupational safety have been developedwithin research programs funded by national and transnational bodies. Many of them are now readyfor the market.
Paolo Bragatto, Silvia Maria Ansaldi
doaj   +1 more source

Discretionary Extensions to Unemployment-Insurance Compensation and Some Potential Costs for a McCall Worker [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Unemployment insurance provides temporary cash benefits to eligible unemployed workers. Benefits are sometimes extended by discretion during economic slumps. In a model that features temporary benefits and sequential job opportunities, a worker's reservation wages are studied when policymakers can make discretionary extensions to benefits.
arxiv  

Insights into PI3K/AKT signaling in B cell development and chronic lymphocytic leukemia

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This Review explores how the phosphoinositide 3‐kinase and protein kinase B pathway shapes B cell development and drives chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a common blood cancer. It examines how signaling levels affect disease progression, addresses treatment challenges, and introduces novel experimental strategies to improve therapies and patient outcomes.
Maike Buchner
wiley   +1 more source

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