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Behavioural Interventions: A Powerful Tool Or Unnecessary Intrusion, Michael Eriksen
Behavioural Interventions: A Powerful Tool Or Unnecessary Intrusion, Michael Eriksen
Public Health Faculty Publications
During this era of health promotion and disease prevention, interest in health behavior change has never been greater. For example, interventions are being developed to prevent the occurrence of chronic disease through efforts aimed at reducing cholesterol, blood pressure, body weight and smoking-related behaviours. Other programmes are aimed at improving, through behavioural interventions, the health outcomes of patients with a variety of existing chronic conditions, including asthma, diabetes, arthritis and coronary heart disease. Still other programmes are being designed to encourage the public to enroll and participate fully in screening programmes for cancer prevention (e.g. mammography and Pap tests), as …
Liver Injury In Workers Exposed To Dimethylformamide, Lora E. Fleming, Stuart Shalat, Carrie A. Redlich
Liver Injury In Workers Exposed To Dimethylformamide, Lora E. Fleming, Stuart Shalat, Carrie A. Redlich
Public Health Faculty Publications
An apparent epidemic cluster of toxic liver disease was reexamined among workers exposed to the solvent dimethylformamide. A demographically similar but unexposed group from a preemployment population was used for comparison. Analysis, after data transformation of the liver transaminases, revealed significant differences between the two populations with respect to the serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase and the ratio of serum glutaminic oxaloacetic transaminase to serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase. Thus a value of the ratio of serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase to serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase. Thus a value of the ratio less than 1 may be suggestive of toxic liver disease. Medical …