Background: High-quality and comparable data to monitor working conditions and health in Latin America are not currently available. In 2007, multiple Latin American countries started implementing national working conditions surveys. However, little is known about their methodological characteristics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To estimate the association between psychosocial risk factors in the workplace and musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) in nurses and aides.
Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
Data Sources: An electronic search was performed using MEDLINE (Pubmed), Psychinfo, Web of Science, Tripdatabase, Cochrane Central Controlled Trials, NIOSHTIC and Joanna Briggs Institute of Systematic Reviews on Nursing and Midwifery, to identify observational studies assessing the role of psychosocial risk factors on MSD in hospital nurses and nursing aides.
Introduction: Gender inequalities exist in work life, but little is known about their presence in relation to factors examined in occupation health settings. The aim of this study was to identify and summarize the working and employment conditions described as determinants of gender inequalities in occupational health in studies related to occupational health published between 1999 and 2010.
Methods: A systematic literature review was undertaken of studies available in MEDLINE, EMBASE, Sociological Abstracts, LILACS, EconLit and CINAHL between 1999 and 2010.
Background: Gender inequalities in the exposure to work-related psychosocial hazards are well established. However, little is known about how welfare state regimes influence these inequalities.
Objectives: To examine the relationship between welfare state regimes and gender inequalities in the exposure to work-related psychosocial hazards in Europe, considering occupational social class.
Objectives: To analyze gender inequalities in employment and working conditions, the work-life balance, and work-related health problems in a sample of the employed population in Spain in 2007, taking into account social class and the economic sector.
Methods: Gender inequalities were analyzed by applying 25 indicators to the 11,054 workers interviewed for the VI edition of the National Working Conditions Survey. Multivariate logistic regression models were used to calculate odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI), stratifying by occupational social class and economic sector.
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand
March 2012
Objective: To investigate whether sexual assaults are more likely to co-occur with some types of abuse rather than others in violent intimate relationships.
Design: Cross-sectional study.
Setting: A self-administered questionnaire was sent to all Norwegian women's shelters.
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NE) represents the most frequent gastrointestinal emergency encountered in neonatal intensive care units. This necrotic-inflammatory bowel disease affects primarily premature patients and it is recorded as an important cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. The NE aetiology seems to be multifactorial: prematurity, enteral feeding, hypoxia and micro-organisms toxicity are registered as the most important risk factors, able to trigger the phlogistic and necrotic way at the basis of necrotizing enterocolitis.
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