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  WPV is a significant public health issue due to the large number of workplace physical assaults, homicides, and lost work time. Millions of workers are injured each year during workplace assaults. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the United States in 2002 there were 18 104 lost work days due to…

Fatalities associated with confined space entry dominate the documented instances of adverse health effects that result from short-duration, high-level chemical exposures in the manufacturing industry. We still do not have an accurate measure of the probability of less acute illnesses that arise from lower-level or repeated incidents that do not result in fatality or emergency…

he Matrix Approach To Recognizing And Controlling Safety And Health Hazards Relative risks of disabling occupational injury, stratified by occupational classification, are shown in Table 2. The rate of disabling injuries among material-moving workers is more than 20 times that of executives. Production workers, like assemblers and machine operators, suffer more than 10 times the…

The quality movement and other advances in the management and prevention of occupational safety and health risks made it clear that a comprehensive safety and health management system for abating workplace hazards and improving protections was needed. In addition to the expansion of the conceptual framework underlying accidents from unsafe workers to more realistic systems…

Many studies have reported variable, and frequently suboptimal, levels of knowledge of oral cancer, risk factors, and diagnosis among both the public and health-care professionals. Although it is among the ten most common cancers worldwide, OSCC is rarely mentioned in the popular press, and public awareness is dismal (Canto et al., 1998). Significant numbers of…

As the UNAIDS Director Dr. Piot points out, the exceptional nature of AIDS requires an exceptional response and that includes responding to the rights of infants, children, and adolescents. Unfortunately, there is a lack of public discourse on how this pandemic has negatively affected the lives of millions of children. The United Nations Convention on…

Patterns of illness, human rights abuses, and orphanhood that characterize the global HIV/AIDS pandemic are not forged by chance. Rather, poverty and economic inequities, the absence of educational opportunities, exploitative child labor, and pervasive violations of women’s and children’s rights produce the patterns of human suffering that are the subject of this research paper. A…