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1. Worker and Public Health and Safety. Current Views.

Author

Lal, Sara, Lal, Sara, Penzel, Thomas, and Simpson, Ann

Subjects
Humanities, Social interaction, Bayesian Network, Ethiopia, Korea, Korean workers, MBI, Mexico, Poisson regression, Poland, REBA, RULA, Tanzania, Total Worker Health®, aberrant driving behaviour, accident involvement, aerobic fitness, agriculture, anger, anxiety, asbestos, audiometry, auditory danger signal, back-up alarm, behavioral modification, behaviors, body armor, body drag, burnout, business, cardiovascular workload, care workers' intention to leave, chase, chemical risks, child, chronic pain, city, coffee workers, complications, construct validity, coping strategies, correction workers, cost, data envelopment analysis, defence, demographic factors, depression, directivity of hearing, domestic, driver behaviour questionnaire, dust exposure, earmuffs, earplugs, eating alone, eating behaviors, efficiency, electrocardiography, electromyography (EMG), emotional exhaustion, emotional labor, employee' well-being, environmental, ergonomics, executives, exhaustion, experience, exposed, failure mode and effects analysis, fence climb, follow-up, foot pursuit, forestry, global health, gynecology, health, health and safety, health care workers, health impact survey, health inequalities, health promotion, health workers, healthcare, hearing threshold, hospitals, household, human resources, impaired well-being, impulse noise, incapacity for work, industry, injury, injury rate, injury risk, intervention study, iron and steel, job characterization, job qualifications, job strain, job-specific, kinematics, knowledge, labor market performance, law enforcement, law enforcement officer, legislation, level-dependent hearing protectors, load carriage, lung function, manual cultivation, manual materials handling, meal skipping, medical failure, mental health, mental illness, meta-analysis, metabolic syndrome, military, moderated mediation model, motor control, multidisciplinary rehabilitation, musculoskeletal complaints, needlestick injuries, neighbor, noise-induced hearing loss, non-standard work, nontuberculous mycobacteria, novel data-driven approach, nurses, nursing, nursing care, nursing homes for the elderly, obesity, obstacle course, obstetrics, occupation, occupational, occupational disease, occupational exposure, occupational health, occupational health and safety, occupational risk management, occupational safety, occupational safety and health, offshore wind industry, oil and gas, olive orchards, oral health, organisational climate, overexertion, parents, part-time, personal accomplishment, pesticides, physical activity, physiology, pneumoconiosis, police, population studies, postural risk assessment, prevalence, psychological distance, psychosocial adaptation, psychosocial and behavioral factors, psychosocial factors, psychosocial hazard, psychosocial work environment, public administration, public health, public health policy, public response, public workers, qualitative analysis, questionnaire, rate ratio, reconciliation of offshore work and family life/partnership, record linkage data, record-linkage data, refractive disorders, rehabilitation, reserves, respiratory symptoms, response gap, return-to-work, risk assessment, risk factors, risk of musculoskeletal disorders, road sign comprehension, role stress, roof, safety at work, safety behavior, satisfaction with care, self-efficacy regarding safety, sex, sharp injury, shift, sick leave, sickness absence, slate, sleep, slope angle, social class, social factors, socioeconomic position, socioeconomic status, sound localization, spinal trauma, stress, stress management, tactical, taxi drivers, technology, temporary worker, transformational leadership, underreporting, university, unmet needs, unplanned readmissions, video display terminal, visual fatigue, vocational rehabilitation, waist circumference, warning sign, warning signal, wood-chipper, work errors forestry, work intensity, work performance, work safety, work-related cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases, work-related injuries, working age, workload, workplace injuries, workplace violence, young adults
Abstract

Summary: This book on "Worker and Public Health and Safety: Current Views" brings together current scholarly work and opinions in the form of original papers and reviews related to this field of study. It provides important and recent scientific reading as well as topical medical and occupational information and research in areas of immediate relevance, such as chronic and occupational diseases, worker safety and performance, job strain, workload, injuries, accident and errors, risks and management, fitness, burnout, psychological and mental disorders including stress, therapy, job satisfaction, musculoskeletal symptoms and pain, socio-economic factors, dust pollution, pesticides, noise, pathogens, and related areas.

2. Long-Term Health Effects of the 9/11 Disaster.

Author

Brackbill, Robert M., Graber, Judith M., and Robison, W. Allen

Subjects
9/11, 9/11 disaster, 9/11 impact, Asian Americans, Cox regression, FDNY, HQoL, PCL score, PTSD, PTSD cluster, PTSD symptom change, Scadding stage, Short Form-12 (SF-12), WTC, WTC attack, WTC responders, WTC survivors, WTC-related asthma, World Trade Center, World Trade Center (WTC), World Trade Center attack, World Trade Center disaster, World Trade Center exposure, aging, air pollution, airway hyperreactivity, airway physiology, allergen exposure, asthma, asthma control, asthma morbidity, asthma outcomes, asthma quality of life, biomarkers, cardiac sarcoidosis, chronic disease, chronic sinusitis, cleaning practices, cognitive decline, cognitive reserve, comorbid insomnia, counseling, depression, disaster, disaster epidemiology, disaster mental health, dust, environmental health, epidemiological studies, evidence-based treatment, extrathoracic sarcoidosis, fibrosis, fibrotic sarcoid, firefighters, forced oscillation, genetics, handgrip strength, hazard function, health insurance, health-related quality of life, immunoglobulin E, income loss, indoor allergens sensitization, inflammation, injury, irritant(s), latent class analysis, longitudinal analysis, lower Manhattan residents, lung function, lung injury, medical imaging, mental health, mental health conditions, mental health service use, mental health service utilization, mental health treatment, metabolic syndrome, mini asthma quality of life questionnaire, n/a, neuropathic symptoms, obstructive sleep apnea, occupational exposure, paresthesia, peripheral neuropathy, physical health, post-disaster, prevalence, psychotherapy, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary function tests, quality improvement, rescue/recovery workers, respiratory function, respiratory symptoms, retirement, sarcoidosis, screening, severe lung disease, sleep-related quality of life, sleepiness, small airway disease, social support, stressful life events, surveillance bias, thyroid cancer, treatment utilization, trigger(s), unmet mental health care needs
Abstract

Summary: The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, also referred as 9/11, was an iconic event in US history that altered the global and political response to terrorism. The attacks, which involved two planes hitting the twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, resulted in the collapse of the buildings and over 2800 deaths of occupants of the buildings, fire, police and other responders and persons on the street in the vicinity of the collapsing buildings. The destroyed towers and the surrounding buildings have since been replaced but the health effects that resulted from the release of tons of dust, gases and debris as well as the life threat trauma are ongoing, and represent a major health burden among persons directly exposed. Hundreds of scientific publications have documented the physical and mental health effects attributed to the disaster. The current state-of-the-art in understanding the ongoing interactions of physical and mental health, especially PTSD, and the unique mechanisms by which pollutants from the building collapse, have resulted in long term pulmonary dysfunction, course of previously reported conditions, potential emerging conditions (e.g., heart disease and autoimmune diseases), as well as quality of life, functioning and unmet health care needs would be in the purview of this Special Issue on the 9/11 Disaster.

3. Outcome Measures and Prognostic Markers for COPD.

Author

Cazzola, Mario and Make, Barry J.

Abstract

·Lung function, most commonly measured by the FEV1, does not provide a complete picture of the impact of COPD. Assessment of both physiologic and symptomatic outcomes is recommended to more fully assess response to therapeutic interventions. ·Indices of resting and dynamic hyperinflation are associated with exercise capacity and mortality. ·Assessment of response to therapy should include patient-centered outcomes such as health-related quality of life and respiratory symptoms measured with validated questionnaires. ·Cardiopulmonary exercise tests provide more information about the nature of exercise capacity that may be clinically important. Field tests of exercise performance, such as the 6-min walk test, are commonly used to assess response to therapy. ·The presence and severity of exacerbations of COPD as an outcome measure can be based on symptoms but can additionally be linked to such symptoms as require changes in therapy and the need for healthcare utilization. ·Mortality is an important outcome in patients with COPD. Several clinical features are known to correlate with mortality, and a multi-dimensional score (the BODE index) has recently been found to be more predictive of mortality than lung function alone. ·Assessment of the presence and the degree of emphysema and airway disease by chest CT scan can provide important phenotypic information. ·Body composition and other systemic manifestations of COPD may be important outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2011
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