Financial Capability Interventions Used for Specific Diagnoses Related to Functional Impairment: A Scoping Review.

Importance: Occupational therapists often address financial occupations of clients with acquired functional impairments who experience challenges with financial capability (FC).

Objective: To explore the intervention literature aimed at improving FC in five diagnostic adult populations.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, EconLit, and EMBASE; researchers also completed backward and forward citation searching and contacted expert authors.

Exposure duration and absorbed dose assessment in pesticide-exposed agricultural workers: Implications for risk assessment and modeling.

Introduction: Absorbed dose assessment from dermal exposure involves multiplying skin contamination by the dermal absorption coefficient, which is usually defined for the standard workday of 8 h. This strategy may suffer from limitations when the duration of exposure is extremely variable, such as in agricultural exposure to pesticides.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to estimate the dose of mancozeb absorbed by agricultural pesticide applicators in a typical working day considering the real duration of exposure, to compare these estimates with those coming from the use of the Fixed Fractional Approach, and to assess the suitability of the dose estimates in the interpretation of biological monitoring results.

Environmental and biological monitoring for the identification of main exposure determinants in vineyard mancozeb applicators.

Grapevine is a vulnerable crop to several fungal diseases often requiring the use of ethylenebisdithiocarbamate (EBDC) fungicides, such as mancozeb. This fungicide has been reported to have goitrogenic, endocrine disrupting, and possibly immunotoxic effects. The aim of this study was to assess workers' exposure in two scenarios of mancozeb application and analyse the main determinants of exposure in order to better understand their mechanism of influence.

[National plan for prevention in agriculture state of art and prosecution].

Agricultural work submits to high risks for safety and health. In 2009, in execution of "workplace health protection pact" (DPCM 17.12.

Farmers' exposure to herbicides in North Italy: assessment under real-life conditions in small-size rice and corn farms.

Although rice and corn are two main cash crops in Lombardy (North Italy) and their cultivation involves several thousands of farmers, risk assessment of pesticide exposure is rarely done, especially in small and medium sized enterprises. With the use of pads for environmental monitoring (OECD protocol), of pre- and post-exposure 24h urine collection for biological monitoring and of hand wash for hands' exposure, we measured the exposure of 28 agricultural workers to propanil and terbuthylazine in real-life working conditions. In propanil applicators, median daily exposure on the clothes was 73.