TUBERCULOSIS AMONG SEAMEN.

Public Health Rep (1896)

Published: October 1964

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1915571PMC

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

tuberculosis seamen
4
tuberculosis
1

Similar Publications

Objective: To determine the influence of community health nurses' social support on non-adherence with the maintenance phase of directly observed therapy (DOTS) among patients with tuberculosis (TB).

Design: Prospective-cohort.

Sample: One hundred purposively selected patients with TB starting with DOTS maintenance phase.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Objectives: A systematic overview of time trends in hospital contacts among Danish seafarers and fishermen by job title and analyses on skin and infectious diseases.

Methods: Occupational cohorts with hospital contacts 1994-1998 and 1999-2003. Standardized hospital contact ratios (SHCR) were estimated using national rates and ranked by SHCR size.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The classic caries clinical trial: constraints and opportunities.

J Dent Res

August 2004

School of Dentistry, #7450, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7450, USA.

The history of clinical trials would include events in 1747 on board the Salisbury, a British Navy vessel at sea with 12 seamen critically ill with scurvy. Involving these 12 sailors in a study, an officer on board by the name of Lind evaluated six potential treatments for scurvy, and rapidly reached the conclusion that daily consumption of citrus fruits returned the men fit for duty in approximately six days (Bull, 1959). The concept of experimental randomization was first developed by Sir R.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The purpose of the study was to assess the incidence and relative risk of hepatitis A and B and tuberculosis among Danish merchant seamen. We also assessed the occurrence of malaria. The study was based on record linkage of a research database containing data on 24,132 Danish male seamen and the Registry for Notifiable Infectious Diseases in Denmark, supplemented by data from other sources.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!