Association Between Particulate Matter Pollutants and Ophthalmology Visits for Ocular Surface Irritation and Allergy.

Background: The World Health Organization has declared climate change to be "the single biggest health threat facing humanity", yet there are limited studies on the impact of climate change-related air pollution on ocular health.

Objective: To explore associations between ocular surface irritation and allergy-related daily outpatient office visits with daily ambient particulate matter (PM) levels in the Denver Metropolitan Area.

Methods: Daily visit counts of ophthalmology outpatient offices were obtained from an academic health center (October 1, 2015 to January 27, 2023).

Engaging Oncology and Occupational Medicine to Inform Design of a Total Worker Health® Intervention to Address Employment, Financial, and Well-being Outcomes in Cancer Survivors.

Objectives: Few Total Worker Health ® studies and fewer interventions examine well-being in the work context of cancer survivorship. We investigated the possibility of occupation and oncology professionals working together to address employed survivors' work-associated needs.

Methods: We employed a community-based participatory research approach to examine the educational, contextual, and workflow needs of oncology care team members to inform intervention design.

Application and comparison of point-of-care devices for field evaluation of underlying health status of Guatemalan sugarcane workers.

With chronic disease prevalence on the rise globally, surveillance and monitoring are critical to improving health outcomes. Point-of-care (POC) testing can facilitate epidemiological research and enhance surveillance systems in limited resource settings, but previous research has identified bias between POC devices and laboratory testing. We compared the performance of two POC blood analyzers, the iSTAT handheld (Abbott, Princeton, NJ, USA) and the StatSensor Creatinine (Nova Biomedical, Waltham, MA, USA) to concurrent blood samples analyzed at a local laboratory that were collected from 89 agricultural workers in Guatemala.