scholarly journals Occupational injuries and illnesses in rubber factory: Profile, Potential Hazards and possible prevention

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tri Hari Irfani
Keyword(s):  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Gastrointestinal Diseases ◽  
Musculoskeletal Symptoms ◽  
Rubber Workers ◽  
Liver Cancers ◽  
The World ◽  
Mechanical Assist

Rubber is one of the important commodities in the world. Globally, workers are facing so many problems of hazards that produce by rubber process. In Indonesia, there are several data of occupational problems such as respiratory diseases, muscle and skeletal diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, diseases of the teeth and oral cavity, skin diseases and skin tissue. In Iranian rubber factory, Iran, workers had suffered from some kind of musculoskeletal symptoms. Stomach and liver cancers in workers are having in Shanghai tire factory. In addition, Germany has cancer problem of their workers who work in rubber factory. Most of the rubber process in the factory can cause some hazards of the workers. In unloading area and area that operator is taking the dirt manually, workers are facing ergonomic problems. The possible control is reduce weight of load, team lift the object with two or more workers and Use mechanical assist. Machine safeguarding is essential for protecting from Cutting process that can make workers amputation organs such as hands, and fingers. In bale process, the workers need to cut raw rubber into bale in bale cutting. Furthermore, workers are facing with amputation problem. To manage that, It must be designed as a standard which has interlocking guards to prevent access to the cutting area. When wrapped using plastic, workers use a heated iron and sticked in plastic so that it blends neatly. The risks are fingers can cut accidently and then the workers also get contamination from polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The possible preventions are use an automatic plastic wrapping machine with palletized product sitting on a turntable and respirator. Another problem is contact dermatitis that has been reported frequently among rubber workers. The prevention for that problem is using Gloves. The aim of researcher is to provide the profile of occupational injuries and illnesses, potential hazards in rubber factory to prevent the workers.

Current updates on COVID-19 - A review

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ghotekar D S ◽  
Vishal N Kushare ◽  
Sagar V Ghotekar
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Common Cold ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Gastrointestinal Diseases ◽  
Hubei Province ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Health Organization

Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that cause illness such as respiratory diseases or gastrointestinal diseases. Respiratory diseases can range from the common cold to more severe diseases. A novel coronavirus outbreak was first documented in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in December 2019. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic. A global coordinated effort is needed to stop the further spread of the virus. A novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a new strain that has not been identified in humans previously. Once scientists determine exactly what coronavirus it is, they give it a name (as in the case of COVID-19, the virus causing it is SARS-CoV-2).

scholarly journals RETROSPECTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY OF DISEASES IN RUMINANTS IN KHAGRACHARI HILL TRACT DISTRICT OF BANGLADESH

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
MH Ali ◽  
MKJ Bhuiyan ◽  
MM Alam
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Epidemiologic Study ◽  
Gastrointestinal Diseases ◽  
Lower Percentage ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Animal Diseases ◽  
Worm Infestation ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Veterinary Hospital

A retrospective epidemiologic study of animal diseases was undertaken at Khagrachari Sadar Veterinary Hospital during January, 2006 to December, 2010 to determine prevalence and distribution of animal diseases. According to the diseases register, a total of 3988 sick animals were examined and 53 types of diseases were identified during this period. The commonly found various diseases were worm infestation (51.5%), pneumonia and pneumonitis (7.9%), ephemeral fever (3.7%), enteritis (3.4%), mastitis(3.2%), mange (3.2%), indigestion (2.8%), anestrous(2.6%). Rest of the diseases had lower percentage than 2%. Out of 3988 sick animals, 74.7% were female and 25.3 % were male animals. Animals aged between 2-5 (A1) years had high prevalence (54.0%) and it was low in age group 8-10 years (A4), 2.4%. Prevalence of diseases was high (42.3%) in rainy season (June-October) followed by (32.5%) in winter (November-February) and lowest (25.2%) in summer season (March-May). Gastrointestinal diseases 61.6 % (2458 cases) was seen highly prevalent among all groups of animals which was followed by infectious diseases 10.4% (416 cases), skin diseases 9.4 % (377 cases), respiratory diseases 8.27% (330 cases) and reproductive diseases 7.93% (cases). This study suggests that for a period of 15 years or more will help to identify the risk factors of diseases in this area.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjvm.v9i2.13457

scholarly journals TRENDS AND CAUSES OF MORBIDITY IN PART OF CHILDREN IN THE CITY OF SANA'A, YEMEN 1978-2018: FINDINGS OF SINGLE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan A. Al-Shamahy ◽  
Abdulrahman A. Ishak
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Center ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Intestinal Parasites ◽  
Gastrointestinal Diseases ◽  
P Value ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tract Infections

Background and aims: Yemen has made notable progress in dropping child mortality over the past four decades. In spite of this, due to political instability and the foreign aggression on the country in the past ten years, the incidence of diseases and deaths escalated. The mortality rate of children under the age of 5 in Yemen is still high compared to many low and middle countries (LMIC). Alternatively, patterns and causes of child morbidity in Yemen have not been well inspected. The aim of this study was to investigate the trend of morbidity and causes of disease among children ≤16 years old in Sana'a city, Yemen from 1978 to 2018 based on data from a single child health center. Subjects and methods: Data was collected from a private children Health Center in Sana'a. Data collection and analysis was performed for 4 months starting from 15/6/2020 and ending on 9/26/2020. The records included clinical and laboratory investigations for children who visited the out-patient clinic of the medical center. The study included 8,861 clinical diagnosed cases, 4,833 males and 4,028 females, between the ages of less than one year and 16 years. The frequency distribution of the different variables and the ratios of cases containing data on these variables were analyzed and their significance (P-value) was calculated using Chi-squared "N-1" test. Results: Between 1978 and 2018, respiratory diseases were the most common accounting for 44.3% of the total causes, followed by gastrointestinal diseases (30.3%), and other diseases such as skin diseases, nutritional disorders, and urinary tract infections by 5.2%, 3.9% and 3.9 % respectively. In addition, central nervous system diseases (CNS) (3.1%), hematology (1.7%), and heart disease (1.33%) were rare childhood diseases.  Conclusions: Respiratory diseases and gastrointestinal diseases remain among the main causes of children's diseases in Sana'a, Yemen. These findings call for better newborn and child recovery and survival interventions that focus on the key factors that lead to childhood disease.         Peer Review History: Received 6 November  2020; Revised 25 Decembe; Accepted 4 January, Available online 15 January 2021 UJPR follows the most transparent and toughest ‘Advanced OPEN peer review’ system. The identity of the authors and, reviewers will be known to each other. This transparent process will help to eradicate any possible malicious/purposeful interference by any person (publishing staff, reviewer, editor, author, etc) during peer review. As a result of this unique system, all reviewers will get their due recognition and respect, once their names are published in the papers. We expect that, by publishing peer review reports with published papers, will be helpful to many authors for drafting their article according to the specifications. Auhors will remove any error of their article and they will improve their article(s) according to the previous reports displayed with published article(s). The main purpose of it is ‘to improve the quality of a candidate manuscript’. Our reviewers check the ‘strength and weakness of a manuscript honestly’. There will increase in the perfection, and transparency. Received file:                           Comments of reviewer(s):         Average Peer review marks at initial stage: 6.5/10 Average Peer review marks at publication stage: 8.0/10 Reviewer(s) detail: Dr. Ali Awad Allah Ali Moh. Saeed, National University, Sudan, [email protected] Dr. Gulam Mohammed Husain, National Research Institute of Unani Medicine for Skin Disorders, Hyderabad, India, [email protected] Dr. Sunita Singh, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA, [email protected] Similar Articles: DISTRIBUTION AND RISK FACTORS FOR GIARDIA LAMBLIA AMONG CHILDREN AT AMRAN GOVERNORATE, YEMEN COCCIDIAN INTESTINAL PARASITES AMONG CHILDREN IN AL-TORBAH CITY IN YEMEN: IN COUNTRY WITH HIGH INCIDENCE OF MALNUTRITION PREVALENCE AND POTENTIAL RISK FACTORS OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS IN A SAMPLE OF CHILDREN IN TWO SELECTED AREAS IN YEMEN

scholarly journals Dermatological Findings in COVID-19 Patients: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Regina Dantas Jales De Oliveira ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Seborrheic Dermatitis ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Clinical Tests ◽  
Cutaneous Manifestations ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The World ◽  
Pressure Injury

Introduction: In the day 16th June 2020, the number of deaths is up to 430000 and the confirmed cases are more than 8 million in the world. The dermatology clinical findings on COVID-19 patients were cutaneous manifestations as pressure injury, contact dermatitis itch, pressure urticarial and exacerbation of pre-existing skin diseases, including seborrheic dermatitis and acne Objective: This work means to show the researches doing in dermatology about COVID-19 and the findings related to them Methodology: In this research article were founded in PubMed with free texts, clinical tests and published in the last 5 years Results: Were founded 13 articles published using the terms proposed: dermatology and coronavirus and COVID-19. Five of them were written about cutaneous manifestations of COVID-19 Conclusion: Although several cutaneous manifestations had been associated with COVID-19, none so far is specific to this disease. The dermatological approach has been valued and, in the future, It is expected that dermatologists can help both in the early diagnosis of the disease and in its prognosis

scholarly journals Dermatological Findings in COVID-19 Patients: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Regina Dantas Jales De Oliveira ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Seborrheic Dermatitis ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Clinical Tests ◽  
Cutaneous Manifestations ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The World ◽  
Pressure Injury

Introduction: In the day 16th June 2020, the number of deaths is up to 430000 and the confirmed cases are more than 8 million in the world. The dermatology clinical findings on COVID-19 patients were cutaneous manifestations as pressure injury, contact dermatitis itch, pressure urticarial and exacerbation of pre-existing skin diseases, including seborrheic dermatitis and acne Objective: This work means to show the researches doing in dermatology about COVID-19 and the findings related to them Methodology: In this research article were founded in PubMed with free texts, clinical tests and published in the last 5 years Results: Were founded 13 articles published using the terms proposed: dermatology and coronavirus and COVID-19. Five of them were written about cutaneous manifestations of COVID-19 Conclusion: Although several cutaneous manifestations had been associated with COVID-19, none so far is specific to this disease. The dermatological approach has been valued and, in the future, It is expected that dermatologists can help both in the early diagnosis of the disease and in its prognosis

Statistical analysis of distribution, dynamics and etiological structure of bovine diseases in Vologda region

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Oksana B. Badeeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Delayed Diagnosis ◽  
Specific Weight ◽  
Gastrointestinal Diseases ◽  
Vologda Region ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Young Cattle ◽  
High Level

Statistical data of livestock for 30 years is reflected in the article. Author used the materials of the state veterinary reporting. A comparative analysis of the number, incidence and death rate of adult animals and young cattle for two five-year periods (2001-2005 and 2014-2018). the data of the analysis of veterinary statistical reports for 2018 on the specific weight of the large horned cattle and age dynamics of calves in farms of the Vologda region are shown. A significant decrease in livestock of the large horned cattle by 56.3% (from 1990 to 2018) is shown in the analysis of the data. Over the five years 2014-2018, there was a decrease in the number of the large horned cattle by 31.3%, the birth rate of calves - by 26.2%, and the incidence of calves - by 12.3% and the mortality rate decreased by 3.3%. Despite the decline in the number of livestock, in 2018 there is a high incidence of animal diseases (49.6%). The highest incidence rate was observed among calves under 10 days of age 43.3%, 31.7% - from 11 to 30 days, 15.8% - from one to three months, 6.5% - from three to six months and 2.7% - from 6 to 12 months. Of the total number of sick calves in 2018, 63.2% had gastrointestinal diseases, and death for this reason is 49.6% of the total number of victims. Respiratory diseases affect 21.8% of young animals, and death due to respiratory diseases is 18.2%. Analysis of statistical data showed that, despite the complex of veterinary and sanitary measures, the incidence and death of calves remain at a high level. This can be explained by delayed diagnosis and low therapeutic effectiveness in gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases of cattle.

Development of Dermatological Skin Disease Detection and Classification based on Wavelet and ANN

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Revati Kadu ◽  
U. A. Belorkar
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Skin Disease ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Screening Method ◽  
Phase Detection ◽  
Statistical Measures ◽  
The World ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Wavelet Techniques

One of the most common and augmenting health problems in the world are related to skin. The most  unpredictable and one of the most difficult entities to automatically detect and evaluate is the human skin disease because of complexities of texture, tone, presence of hair and other distinctive features. Many cases of skin diseases in the world have triggered a need to develop an effective automated screening method for detection and diagnosis of the area of disease. Therefore the objective of this work is to develop a new technique for automated detection and analysis of the skin disease images based on color and texture information for skin disease screening. In this paper, system is proposed which detects the skin diseases using Wavelet Techniques and Artificial Neural Network. This paper presents a wavelet-based texture analysis method for classification of five types of skin diseases. The method applies tree-structured wavelet transform on different color channels of red, green and blue dermoscopy images, and employs various statistical measures and ratios on wavelet coefficients. In all 99 unique features are extracted from the image. By using Artificial Neural Network, the system successfully detects different types of dermatological skin diseases. It consists of mainly three phases image processing, training phase, detection  and classification phase.

Relationship between Musculoskeletal Symptoms and Non-fatal Occupational Injuries in Construction Workers in Korea

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung-Won Yoo ◽  
Hye-Eun Lee ◽  
Dong-Hee Koh ◽  
Kyoo-Sang Kim ◽  
Tae-Woo Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Musculoskeletal Symptoms

scholarly journals Redox Imbalance in T Cell-Mediated Skin Diseases

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saveria Pastore ◽  
Liudmila Korkina
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Atopic Dermatitis ◽  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Redox Balance ◽  
Inflammatory Disorder ◽  
Chronic Inflammatory Disorder ◽  
Physical Chemical ◽  
Chemical Oxidants ◽  
Beneficial Outcome

The skin is permanently exposed to physical, chemical, and biological aggression by the environment. In addition, acute and chronic inflammatory events taking place in the skin are accompanied by abnormal release of pro-oxidative mediators. In this paper, we will briefly overview the homeostatic systems active in the skin to maintain the redox balance and also to counteract abnormal oxidative stress. We will concentrate on the evidence that a local and/or systemic redox dysregulation accompanies the chronic inflammatory disorder events associated to psoriasis, contact dermatitis, and atopic dermatitis. We will also discuss the fact that several well-established treatments for the therapy of chronic inflammatory skin disorders are based on the application of strong physical or chemical oxidants onto the skin, indicating that, in selected conditions, a further increase of the oxidative imbalance may lead to a beneficial outcome.

scholarly journals Highlighting the compound risk of COVID-19 and environmental pollutants using geospatial technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ram Kumar Singh ◽  
Martin Drews ◽  
Manuel De la Sen ◽  
Prashant Kumar Srivastava ◽  
Bambang H. Trisasongko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Environmental Pollutants ◽  
Atmospheric Pollutants ◽  
Geospatial Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
Community Transmission ◽  
Global Threat

AbstractThe new COVID-19 coronavirus disease has emerged as a global threat and not just to human health but also the global economy. Due to the pandemic, most countries affected have therefore imposed periods of full or partial lockdowns to restrict community transmission. This has had the welcome but unexpected side effect that existing levels of atmospheric pollutants, particularly in cities, have temporarily declined. As found by several authors, air quality can inherently exacerbate the risks linked to respiratory diseases, including COVID-19. In this study, we explore patterns of air pollution for ten of the most affected countries in the world, in the context of the 2020 development of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that the concentrations of some of the principal atmospheric pollutants were temporarily reduced during the extensive lockdowns in the spring. Secondly, we show that the seasonality of the atmospheric pollutants is not significantly affected by these temporary changes, indicating that observed variations in COVID-19 conditions are likely to be linked to air quality. On this background, we confirm that air pollution may be a good predictor for the local and national severity of COVID-19 infections.

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