The number of participants is not representative of the prevalence of the disorder in the population of the health center and occupational centers.
The occupational health center of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan will begin offering free health examinations this summer -- at federal government expense -- to thousands of people who worked or volunteered at ground zero.
Prior to visiting eastern DRC, Veneman will participate in the inauguration of a new occupational health center with Congolese basketball star, Dikembe Mutombo, at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital in Kinshasa.
Although the proportion of women versus men in the study sample resembles the participants at this occupational rehabilitation center, the results might not be representative for other groups of sick-listed persons.
Saniter and Siedler (2014) show that the introduction of occupational counseling centers in Germany resulted in smoother labor market entry among affected school leavers.
Management of occupational asthma centers on prescribing standard asthma therapies in conjunction with instituting preventive strategies, such as appropriate avoidance of environmental triggers, providing work restrictions, and using environmental controls and /or personal respiratory protection.
The present study consists of data from 179 patients that were referred from primary health care centers or occupational health service centers to a specialist clinic, which exclusively treats patients with stress-related mental disorders, in the region of Västra Götaland, Sweden.
The control subjects (n = 138, age 42 ± 11 years, 39 men and 99 women) were healthy volunteers without low back pain, back disease, or back surgery and they were recruited to the study by the local occupational health care center (ODL Health, Oulu, Finland).
Setting: Three occupational health care centers.
Also available is contact information for the two occupational health training centers on the continent and links to WHO publications on the subject.
