[Occupational safety and health risks in seaport: an update of narrative review].

Seaports are complex systems in which workers can be exposed to a large variety of safety and health risks. Nevertheless, a little literature is available concerning this topic, if we exclude the specific area of shipbuilding industry. Objectives.

Assessment of cardiovascular risk in an Italian psychiatric outpatient sample: A chart review of patients treated with second-generation antipsychotics.

Despite the call by the scientific community for a systematic monitoring of physical health in people with psychiatric illnesses, national and international audits have reported poor quality of cardiovascular risk assessments and management in this vulnerable population. Available evidence indicates that in people affected by mental illness, life expectancy is reduced by 10-20 years, mainly due to cardiovascular accidents and metabolic syndrome (MetS)-related diseases. The primary aim of the present study was to evaluate the accuracy of cardiovascular risk monitoring in an outpatient sample of patients taking second-generation antipsychotics.

[Occupational safety and health risks in dock work: a narrative literature review. ].

Background: Seaports are complex systems where workers can be exposed to a large variety of safety and health risks. Nevertheless, the literature available on this topic is scarce, if we exclude the specific area of the shipbuilding industry.

Objectives And Methods: The aim of this paper is to provide a review of the scientific evidence concerning the occupational risks in seaports.