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B Saia

Publications and source records attributed to B Saia.

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Descriptive epidemiology of Hodgkin's disease in the province of Padova, 1970-1974.

The age-standardized incidence rates of Hodgkin's disease in the province of Padova during the period 1970-1974 were 4.33/10(5) per year for males and 3.70/10(5) per year for females. These rates are higher (particularly for females) than in other European countries and close to those reported for North America. A bimodal distribution by age is present in the province as a whole. These findings, with the limitations due to the small population and diagnostic difficulties taken into account, are discussed with a view to further investigation.

Adolescent↗
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[Health surveillance: scope, tools, efficacy, prospects].

According to experts of the European Commission, NIOSH and OSHA, health surveillance's goal is the both health protection and occupational diseases prevention (including injury and uneasiness). This goal is pursued by assigning workers according to his or her working capacity without any health prejudice. Currently available instruments to protect workers' health include: (i) medical surveillance before employment, (ii) medical surveillance before placement in a job involving exposure to toxics, (iii) medical surveillance at periodic intervals during employment, (iv) medical surveillance at termination of employment. Studies carried out on the efficacy of medical surveillance show the capacity both of identifying health problem and of being perceived as a benefit for workers. An appropriate application of medical surveillance should take into account points as efficacy, guidelines, costs and benefits, and effectiveness. This entails the need to carry out research aiming (i) to make the importance of currently used preventive instruments explicit and (ii) to study new approaches to be applied in occupational health care.

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[Analysis of a preventive health service].

This paper reports the experience and organization of an Occupational Health Service for health-care workers, in order to improve the effectiveness of the unit. The Authors describe the activities of the unit, its organization, and evaluate the amount of working time spent in the different activities.

Health Personnel↗
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[Risk during manual movement of loads].

The estimation of risk from manual movement of loads in health care workers was carried out in 8 hospitals of Veneto Region, North-eastern Italy. 49 medical wards, 53 surgical wards, 23 surgery departments and 21 emergency and diagnostic services were examined. Operationally, a check-list was used to analyze the organization of the work (staff, duties, typology of patients to mobilize) and the work environment. Results show that 61% of the medical wards and 75% of the surgical wards have a higher risk. In particular, the medical wards of geriatrics and neurology, the wards of neurosurgery, heart surgery, orthopedics, the big burns center and geriatric surgery resulted in greater risk. Similarly, 70% of the emergency and diagnostic services and all surgical areas were estimated to be at risk. Given this reality, it has been determined that there are inadequacies in both organizational and structural aspects. In all the examined situations, the risk related to the relationship non self-sufficient patients/nurse was greater when mechanical help was lacking. In 70% of the cases the nursing staff transported patients with the bed. Concerning structural inadequacies, insufficient space was verified in over 50% of the examined wards. Preventive measures should be taken on the two aspects considered, variation of the work organization and the reclamation of work environment. But above all, the need for mechanical help should be emphasized, in order to reduce to a minimum the manual load thus preventing the onset of low-back pain in the nursing staff.

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[Organization of health and safety activities in health care centers].

The paper proposes a model for health and safety organization in health care units and hospitals which takes account of the risk assessment procedures required by law and the quality assessment of the measures thus taken. A redefinition is given of the role of Medical Director and of the functions, aims and standards on which health and safety service and the services of an authorized occupational health physicians must be based.

Hospitals↗