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  • Generalized Elements Of A Workplace Health And Safety Management Program

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    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…

  • Oral Cancer Awareness By The General Public And Health Professionals

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    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…

  • A Public Health Response Informed By Human Rights Principles

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    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…

  • The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic And Orphaned And Vulnerable Children

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    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…

  • Potential Human Health Effects Of Air Pollution-Related Climate Change

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    The global nature of air pollution dispersion raises the issue of the potential impacts on global climate change of human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases such as methane (CH3). These gases are natural constituents of the atmosphere, and they are necessary for the maintenance of the Earth’s climate in that they…

  • epidemiological Studies Of The Health Effects Of Present-Day Air Pollution

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      Although subsequent studies linking more routine levels of air pollution and adverse health outcomes are not as obvious, recent epidemiological studies have found statistically significant associations between multiple individual pollutants and a wide range of significant adverse and preventable health effects at present-day pollutant levels in the United States, and sometimes even in areas…

  • Human Health Effects Of Ambient Air Pollution Entry Of Air Pollutants Into The Body

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    The respiratory tract is the primary entry portal for airborne contaminants. It comprises three zones: (1) the upper respiratory tract (including the nose and throat airways), (2) the bronchiole airways of the upper lung, through which air is breathed, and (3) the alveolar region, where oxygen exchange between the lung and the circulatory system (bloodstream)…

  • The Health-Care System And Patient Empowerment

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    It is unclear if, left to their own devices, the providers who run health systems would aim to promote or restrict patient empowerment. While all health-care systems strive for the good of their constituents, it has been recognized that paternalism has dominated the practice of medicine (i.e., physicians ‘care for’ patients rather than provide clients…

  • A Holistic Model Of Empowerment

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    Parallel to this recent rise in empowerment, a number of health-care systems have sought to become more patient-oriented. In the United States, a backlash against managed care and the growing number of uninsured and underinsured individuals with limited access to health care has in part precipitated calls for a more consumer directed health-care system. In…

  • Empowerment Principles In Health-Care Literature

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    A recent review of the English language medical literature between 1980 and 2005, summarized in Figure 1, found a range of applications of empowerment principles in health care (Loukanova and Bridges, 2008). First, following more general social and political empowerment movements, 26% of all English language articles in the medical literature on empowerment have focused…