scholarly journals COVID-19: responding to a pandemic on Operation TORAL

2021 ◽  
pp. bmjmilitary-2021-001911
Author(s):  
Stacey Webster ◽  
A Gough ◽  
M R Riley ◽  
S Makin
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Medical Planning

Operation TORAL was the UK’s contribution to NATO’s Operation RESOLUTE SUPPORT in Kabul, Afghanistan. Approximately 1000 British troops were deployed in Kabul when the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan was declared. This article will describe the challenges faced due to COVID-19 in Kabul.Medical planning considerations, occupational health issues, implementation of behaviour change and operating as part of a multinational organisation are all discussed, with challenges encountered detailed and potential solutions offered. The use of a suggested framework for ensuring the medical estimate process covered all areas relevant to an emerging viral pandemic —the 4Ds and 4Cs approach—proved particularly useful in the early stages of the pandemic in Afghanistan.

When Scientific Knowledge and Ignorance Make It Difficult to Improve Occupational Health: A French and European Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 104829112110191
Author(s):  
Émilie Counil ◽  
Emmanuel Henry
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Exposure Limits ◽  
Attributable Fractions ◽  
Blind Spots

This article analyzes the consequences of the increasing reference to scientific expertise in the decision and implementation process of occupational health policy. Based on examples (exposure limits and attributable fractions) taken from an interdisciplinary seminar conducted in 2014 to 2015 in France, it shows how the measurement or regulation of a problem through biomedicine-based tools produces blind spots. It also uses a case study to show the contradictions between scientific and academic aims and public health intervention. Other indirect implications are also examined, such as the limitation of trade unions’ scope for action. Finally, the article suggests launching a broad political debate accessible to nonspecialists about collective occupational health issues—a dialogue made difficult by the rise of the afore-mentioned techno-scientific perspective.

scholarly journals Global Occupational Health Issues

AAOHN Journal ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 244-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry S. Levy
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health Issues

scholarly journals Occupational Health and Safety For Sign Language Interpreters

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Woodcock ◽  
Steven L. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Sign Languages ◽  
Sign Language Interpreters ◽  
Sign Language Interpreting

<div>"This Guide is intended for working interpreters, interpreting students and educators, and those who employ or purchase the services of interpreters. Occupational health education is essential for professionals in training, to avoid early attrition from practice. "Sign language interpreting" is considered to include interpretation between American Sign Language (ASL) and English, other spoken languages and corresponding sign languages, and between sign languages (e.g., Deaf Interpreters). Some of the occupational health issues may also apply equally to Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) reporters, oral interpreters, and intervenors. The reader is encouraged to make as much use as possible of the information provided here". -- Introduction.</div><div><br></div>

Occupational health issues and ways to improve medical and satsitic services for workers of road transport enterprises

1985 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-318
Author(s):  
N. X. Amirov ◽  
A. G. Sakhibullina
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Motor Transport

The sanitary and hygienic working conditions and health status of workers of motor transport enterprises were studied.

“To Help a Million Sick, You Must Kill a Few Nurses”: Nurses’ Occupational Health, 1890–1914

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Local History ◽  
National Context ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Experience Of Illness

Although nursing is recognized today as a serious occupational health risk, nursing historians have neglected the theme of occupational health and individual nurses’ experience of illness. This article uses the local history of three case study institutions to set nurses’ health in a national context of political, social, and cultural issues, and suggests a relationship between nurses’ health and the professionalization of nursing. The institutions approached the problem differently for good reasons, but the failure to adopt a coherent and consistent policy worked to the detriment of nurses’ health. However, the conclusion that occupational health was somehow neglected by contemporary actors was, nevertheless, erroneous and facilitated omission of the subject from historical studies concentrating on professional projects and the wider politics of nursing. This article shows that occupational health issues were inexorably connected to these nursing debates and cannot be understood without reference to professional projects.

scholarly journals Smoking and Smoking Cessation: Occupational Health Issues

AAOHN Journal ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. 383-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda L Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Health Behavior ◽  
Employee Health ◽  
Health Hazards ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Unique Position

Cigarette smoking is clearly a dangerous health behavior. Worksite cessation programs are a valuable means to reduce the health hazards associated with smoking and to reduce overall employer costs. Occupational health nurses are in a unique position to make a significant impact on employee health by supporting individual cigarette smoking cessation efforts and by promoting the development of organized worksite smoking cessation programs.

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