{"title":"A survey of the dental health of the workers on two groups of offshore installations.","authors":"B N Ballantine, F Costigan, R J Anderson","doi":"10.1093/occmed/40.4.143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/40.4.143","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study of the medical evacuation records from offshore installation workers indicated that dental pathology may be a significant problem. This investigation was set up to gather more accurate information. The intention was to examine the mouths of as many of the workforce as possible. This covered both day and night shifts and both tours of duty. The examinees numbered 493 out of an offshore population of 967. Half of the examinees attended the dentist regularly. Eight per cent of those examined had been evacuated for dental reasons. Thirty-six per cent were in the authors' high or medium occupational risk groups. There are opportunities for action to be taken to improve the situation.</p>","PeriodicalId":76684,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine","volume":"40 4","pages":"143-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/occmed/40.4.143","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13414481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The piper and the tune.","authors":"D D'Auria","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76684,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine","volume":"40 2","pages":"43-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13528521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occupational diseases of teeth.","authors":"B N Gupta","doi":"10.1093/occmed/40.4.149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/40.4.149","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Occupational diseases of the teeth have, in general, received scant attention. The chief cause of this is lack of awareness among occupational physicians. Exposure to various chemical substances is one of the causes of occupation-related dental disorders. Physical and biological factors also contribute. The combination of these factors plus poor dental hygiene aggravates the condition. The present article aims to focus the attention of occupational physicians towards this important problem.</p>","PeriodicalId":76684,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine","volume":"40 4","pages":"149-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/occmed/40.4.149","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13415084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occupational health research--looking to the next decade.","authors":"D Coggon","doi":"10.1093/occmed/40.1.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/40.1.38","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76684,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine","volume":"40 1","pages":"38-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/occmed/40.1.38","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13475444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Audit and son...?","authors":"D D'Auria","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76684,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine","volume":"40 4","pages":"122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13414470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An evaluation of undergraduate occupational health teaching.","authors":"R Philipp","doi":"10.1093/occmed/40.4.135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/40.4.135","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It has been reported that at present, UK medical schools do not have a uniform approach to undergraduate occupational health teaching. Consequently, a suggested educational framework for this teaching has been prepared. In this study a problem management questionnaire was used to evaluate a course based on this framework. Patterns of student understanding about hazards, risk groups, and staff responsible for occupational health in the hospital environment, were compared before and after the courses. This environment was chosen for study because after graduation all doctors work for some time in hospitals and different doctors may treat hospital staff for problems acquired at work. The findings show that although specific teaching of hospital occupational health is not given, students grasp the introductory concepts and then modify their approaches to the prevention and clinical care of health problems associated with hospital employment. In particular, they become more aware of different risk groups and the sources of professional advice. Findings from such studies before and after tuition, help tutors to identify gaps in knowledge and can be used with student groups to reinforce their interest in learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":76684,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine","volume":"40 4","pages":"135-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/occmed/40.4.135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13414479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hepatitis B markers in ambulance personnel in Lancashire.","authors":"P Morgan-Capner, P D Wallice","doi":"10.1093/occmed/40.1.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/40.1.21","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One hundred and seventy-nine ambulance personnel working in Lancashire were tested for markers of past or current hepatitis B. None was currently infected but two (1.1 per cent) had had hepatitis B in the past with full recovery. Thus, the prevalence of past hepatitis B was within the range observed for blood donors in the UK.</p>","PeriodicalId":76684,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine","volume":"40 1","pages":"21-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/occmed/40.1.21","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13475440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classification of audiometric results.","authors":"R A Cooke","doi":"10.1093/occmed/40.3.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/40.3.117","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76684,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine","volume":"40 3","pages":"117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/occmed/40.3.117","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13366240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Death of the LD50.","authors":"A D Dayan","doi":"10.1093/occmed/40.3.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/40.3.85","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76684,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine","volume":"40 3","pages":"85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/occmed/40.3.85","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13367651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Needle-stick injuries in medical students.","authors":"S Gompertz","doi":"10.1093/occmed/40.1.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/40.1.19","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A standard questionnaire was used to assess the experience of needle-stick injury in 151 undergraduate medical students, during the previous 10 months. Eighty-two injuries were reported in the 95 questionnaires which were returned. Fifty-one of these took place during venepuncture; of these 26 whilst resheathing a needle. Seventy-two per cent of students resheathed used hypodermic needles, but their rate of injury did not differ significantly from the rate in those who did not resheath. The remaining 31 injuries occurred during surgical procedures. There was a significantly lower rate of injury in those who had earlier been advised to have hepatitis B immunization.</p>","PeriodicalId":76684,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine","volume":"40 1","pages":"19-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/occmed/40.1.19","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13475438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}