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PubMed1991

[Effect of working conditions in the coke-processing department on the secretory function of the adrenal cortex].

In 85 randomly chosen employees of the coal tar distillation department working at least 5 years, exposed to toxic substances not exceeding MAC except tar substances and benzo(a)pyrene, whose concentrations were high, blood level of cortisol and 17 OHCS and 17 KS excretion in urine were examined. In the most exposed group cortisol level decreased and the 17 OHCS excretion augmented.

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PubMed2000

[Tough working conditions for urologists].

A questionnaire sent by the Swedish Association of Urology to all active Swedish urologists (n = 249) was returned by 89%. Questions concerned actual urological work, emergency duties, education, development facilities and research access, but also job satisfaction, psychological fatigue and emotional stress, as well as each urologist's plans for the future. Answers indicate that Swedish urologists carry a heavy work load and experience considerable demands from patients, relatives and colleagues. Physical and psychological exhaustion are common, and many hope to find work outside hospitals or abroad. The tightening of health-care purses presumably augments the work load, but local factors are also involved. For the future, more and improved educational programs are planned, together with greater participation on the part of junior doctors in organizational and structural processes. Compared to other physicians, urologists show greater reserves of psychic energy, but also signs of increasing intellectual exhaustion.

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PubMed1977

[Relations between working conditions and occurrence of vibration disease in forestry workers. I].

The level of mechanic vibrations intensity of 20 motor saws of the BK-3a type and 5 saws of the Partner R-11 type was determined and the evaluation of 460 motorsawers' vibration exposure--in case of working on these types of saws--was performed. The evaluation covered saws of various technical conditions, with which felling, cross-cutting and trimming of soft and hard timber were performed. The vibration measured exceeds 3--5 times Soviet hygienic normatives and ISO, especially in octave frequencies of 63 and 125 Hz. The intensity level of vibrations was significantly dependent on the technical conditions of the saw, activities performed with it and the hardness of timber. The evaluation of the woodcutters' exposure to vibration in a day, a year and the whole employment period was performed on the basis of the test-checking, the ammount of timber produced, fuel used for the saw and days of saw-work. Daily exposure to vibration was 2,4 +/- 1,2 hours and was of intermittent, irregular character. Motor-sawers worked with saws from 31 to 296 days a year, producing yearly from 973 to 10.503 m3 of timber as m3 of timber felled.

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Habitual physical activity of Senegalese adolescent girls under different working conditions, as assessed by a questionnaire and movement registration.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to measure habitual physical activity in a group of Sereer adolescent females from Senegal. The hypothesis tested was that physical activity levels of adolescent Senegalese girls differ according to location and living conditions and may have a negative impact on growth and nutritional status. DESIGN: Studies of physical activity within the framework of a longitudinal study of growth during puberty. METHODS: All the adolescents were born and had been raised in the same rural communities, but some worked as maids in the cities during the dry season (migrants) while the others remained in the villages all year round in order to help their families in daily domestic and agricultural tasks (non-migrants). The study was undertaken in both rural and urban settings on a subsample of 40 migrant and 40 non-migrant girls aged 13.4-15.3, drawn from a cohort of 406 adolescents followed up since 1995. Nutritional status was estimated from anthropometric measurements; sexual maturation was based on stage of breast development and occurrence of menarche. Intensity and patterns of physical activity were derived from movement registration by accelerometry for a 3-day period. The nature and frequency of daily tasks were evaluated by questionnaires. RESULTS: As a whole, the adolescents studied here were smaller, thinner and less mature than girls of the same age from developed countries. Migrants weighed 3.5 kg more than nonmigrants and had more muscularity and a thicker fat subcutaneous layer. The day-to-day reliability of accelerometry counts was excellent (intraclass correlation coefficient: 0.90. 95% CI: 0.85-0.93). Mean daily (24 h) physical activity counts were higher for migrants than for non-migrants. Migrants spent more time engaged in moderate to heavy activity than did non-migrants (9.3 h/24 h versus 6.1 h/24 h). Non-migrants slept or were inactive for a longer period than migrants (7.6h/24h versus 6.3 h/24h). They also rested for a longer period of the day (2.1 h/24 h versus 0.8 h/24 h). When examining the influence of maturational status on physical activity, there was a clear difference between the two groups: the less mature migrants were more active, whereas the reverse was true in villages, where girls at the end of puberty reached higher intensity indices. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: In both situations, the activity level was high. The nutritional status of migrants was better despite a heavier work load. Differences could be explained by better living conditions and food intake in cities.

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PubMed2006

Working conditions and health among employees at information technology--enabled services: a review of current evidence.

Workers in information technology (IT)-enabled services like business process outsourcing and call centers working with visual display units are reported to have various health and psycho-social disorders. Evidence from previously published studies in peer- reviewed journals and internet sources were examined to explore health disorders and psycho-social problems among personnel employed in IT-based services, for a systematic review on the topic. In addition, authors executed a questionnaire- based pilot study. The available literature and the pilot study, both suggest health disorders and psychosocial problems among workers of business process outsourcing. The details are discussed in the review.

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PubMed1977

[Correlation between work conditions and the occurrence of vibration disease in forestry workers II].

The frequency of occurrence of vibration disease in 460 randomly chosen sawworkers, from 20 to 65 years of age, working with motor-saws of the KBK-3a and Partner R-11 types was determined. The control group consisted of 136 forestry workers non-exposed to vibration. Vibration disease was observed in 22.6% of motor-sawers, and it was suspected in 6.7%. The occurrence of vibration disease is significantly dependent on the age, daily exposure to vibration, working period in years and--especially strongly--(p less than 0.001) on the amount of timber produced and fuel used for the saw. It was discovered that daily exposure to motor-saw vibration with the type BK-3a considered, should not exceed 2 hours a day. The amount of timber produced by the saw-worker as m3 of timber felled, should not exceed 5.000 m3 in a year and 40.000 m3 in the whole employment period.

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