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Unlabelled: «Mental disability management within occupational health surveillance».

Introduction:: The management of workers with mental disability is a current topic of great interest. The aim of the article is to report the experience of managing cases of employees with mental disabilities in an Italian university hospital and to describe the preventive measures adopted and the therapeutic programs carried out.

[Health surveillance programme for workers with past asbestos exposure in Tuscany Region (Central Italy)].

Asbestos-related diseases are characterized by a long latency time since exposure. This accounts for a health surveillance programme addressed to asbestos workers to be performed for decades after the cessation of occupational exposure. We describe the health surveillance programme for former asbestos-exposed workers in Tuscany Region (Central Italy), with particular attention to organization and related critical issues.

Adverse reproductive outcomes associated with exposure to a municipal solid waste incinerator.

Introduction: The association between reproductive health outcomes and exposure to municipal solid waste incinerators (MSWIs) is inconclusive. This study investigates the association between exposure to a MSWI and various reproductive outcomes (preterm birth, low birth weight, small for gestational age, and sex ratio), taking into account other sources of pollution (industrial plants, highway, major roads with high traffic flows) and maternal factors, including the socioeconomic status.

Methods: PM10 concentration maps were used for the exposure assessment to the MSWI and to other sources of pollution in the study area.

Participatory health impact assessment used to support decision-making in waste management planning: A replicable experience from Italy.

The lack of participatory tools in Health Impact Assessment (HIA) to support decision-makers is a critical factor that negatively affects the impacts of waste policies. This study describes the participatory HIA used in deciding on the possible doubling of the municipal solid waste incinerating plant located near the city of Arezzo, Italy. Within the framework of the new waste management plan, a methodology for the democratic participation of stakeholders was designed adopting the Local Agenda 21 methodology.

[Epidemiological population-based cohort study on mortality and hospitalization in the area near the waste incinerator plant of San Zeno, Arezzo (Tuscany Region, Central Italy)].

Objectives: to evaluate whether exposure to an urban waste incinerator plant operating in Arezzo (Tuscany Region, Central Italy) since the 2000 is associated with mortality and morbidity.

Design: a population-based cohort study of inhabitants living close to the incinerator in the period 2001-2010 was conducted. The individual exposure histories to the incinerator and other sources in the area were estimated using a dispersion model producing PM10 concentration maps for each source (ADMS-URBAN model).