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J T Marcinkowski

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At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1990

[Effect of environmental factors on the number of demands on emergency medical services in respiratory and cardiovascular diseases].

In the district of Poznań the demands to the Fast Medical Aid were analyzed in cases of respiratory and circulatory system diseases during the winter period 1985/86. Therefore, according to air pollution aspects, the district was subdivided into 10 parts, for which various data were collected and evaluated. Obviously, a greater susceptibility for older persons above 60 years of age was traced. It is pointed to the fact that besides the general air pollution also factors such as bio-meteorological influences or different levels of primary medical care exert influence on the demand to Fast Medical Aid.

Air Pollutants↗
PubMed1988

[Occupational accidents in the light of the records of the Institute of Social Insurance].

The records of the Social Insurance Institute Department in Poznań have been used as the study material. The area of the study covered the whole province of Poznań. The study included only people employed in the State-controlled economy. Applied in the study have been certificate records of the Social Insurance Institution related to individuals applying for financial benefits and entitled to them as victims of accidents at work (health damage, disability) in 1985. The records of 3119 workers (2380 men and 739 women) were analysed. Accidents at work were found to be 2.8 times more frequent among workmen, as compared to people carrying on other than physical work. The accident rate was higher among men than among women; the difference was more distinctive in physical workers (2.7:1) than in those performing other types of work (1.3:1). 37.5% of all accidents affected the workers who had been accident victims before. A clear weekly rhythm of accidents was observed: most of them happened on Wednesday. 11 o'clock was noted as the most fatal time. Most frequent accidents were: all kinds of falls (28.8%), hand injuries (34.5%), occurring mostly during transportation or when operating a machine. In the majority of cases the accidents resulted in slight health damages; in 23.0% of victims no essential health damages were found, they were the so-called zero damages. Finger injuries occur most frequently in physical workers, whereas injuries of ankle-joints, feet and head--in those performing other types of work.

Accidents, Occupational↗
PubMed1984

[A device for measuring body posture during work].

The study was aimed at designing, performing and testing the tool enabling observation of the duration of the trunk inclination under the fibular plane and specific angles in professional work. Admittedly, the most ethiopathogenetic factor of an algesic syndrome in the lower part of the spine is the load resulting mainly from long-lasting trunk anteversion. The tool consists of a gravitating inclination sensor which switches on, with the programmed inclination angle, the quartz time meter. This tool is fastened to the examined patient by webbings to the level of the lumbar spine in the axillary left middle line. The results obtained due to this tool reflect the duration of trunk inclination under different angles at work in different workstations. It was found that the observations made due to that tool, when its inclination sensor is set at 10 degrees, 20 degrees and 30 degrees (forward), should be sufficient to indicate the workstations with static load of the lower part of the spine due to long-lasting trunk anteversion. The simplicity of the studies performed by means of that tool, as well as the fact that those studies are convenient (both for the physicians and patients) indicate the advisability of an extensive use of that tool (also in improved versions) in ergonomic practice.

Humans↗
PubMed1978

[The meteorological factors influencing the number of man-hours lost by workers in the engineering industry (author's transl)].

For 4,000 men aged from 35 to 50 years, all employed in an industrial plant in Poznan a record was made of the daily number of the first sick-notes issued as a result of accidents, acute inflammation of the respiratory tract and exacerbation of chronic diseases which accounted for a total of 82 per cent of the absence from work. On the days which showed an increased incidence of accidents and exacerbations of chronic diseases, the weather charts issued by the Institute of Meteorology indicated a statistically significant and more frequent prevalence of meteorotropically active weather conditions over Poland. In contrast, the number of sicknesses due to an acute inflammation of the respiratory tract increased significantly on the day following the passage of a warm or cold weather front in Poland. Such losses of working hours also occurred more frequently during the colder season, while absence from the workplace due to accidents increased during the warm season.

Absenteeism↗
PubMed1977

[Evaluation of the performance of regional industrial physicians according direct admission observations].

Results of the study of first-hand observations of district industrial physicians were presented. The study was based on specially designed observation inquiry sheets. 34.9% cases constituted prophylactic observation. Patients were found to be treated routinely. Patients complaining of an illness were usually given both a prescription and a disablement for work certificate or were sent to consult a specialist. Patients were sporadically sent for additional examinations or physiocotherapy.

Evaluation Studies as Topic↗
PubMed1975

[Meteorotropic activity of the weather conditions and their role in suicide epidemiology. I. Communication (author's transl)].

On days when there are multiple weather fronts, the number of suicides per day rises significantly, especially when the multiple fronts appear. With a disturbed high pressure, this correlation appears on the following day. With an impending depression and an occluded front, this correlation also falls on the day after these meteorological conditions, but it is weaker. The daily number of suicides rises considerably higher on a day when three meteorotropically active weather conditions prevail at the same time. The greatest number of suicides were committed in the spring. The number of suicides occurring in individual seasons or months assumes different levels, but without forming a biological annual rhythm.

Atmospheric Pressure↗