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Problèmes Musculosquelettiques Et Mouvements Répétitifs Dans Les Abattoirs De Volailles, Louis Patry, Denis Laliberté, Louis Gilbert, Jocelyne Pelletier, Marie-Alice Telle, Jean-Guy Richard

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Depuis octobre 1990, une équipe conjointe de recherche GIROSST - IRSST effectue une étude dans un abattoir de volailles du Québec; elle fait suite à une demande formulée par la direction régionale concernée, de la Commission de la Santé et Sécurité au Travail (CSST) qui avait constaté une augmentation significative des lésions professionnelles secondaires aux mouvements répétitifs dans le secteur des abattoirs. Cet organisme considère important de mieux comprendre la problématique des mouvements répétitifs et ce, afin d'en améliorer la prévention. Cette étude vise à dresser le portrait de la situation et à documenter les activités reliées à l'abattage de …

La Sécurité En Forêt : Machinerie Et Conditions De Travail, Esther Cloutier, Clotilde Pelletier

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Au Québec, l'industrie forestière est un secteur économique important. En 1989 le nombre d'emplois directs se situaient à 14 500 pour les activités de récolte du bois en forêt et de sylviculture, ce qui correspond à 5% de la main-d'oeuvre québécoise. A ces emplois s'en ajoutent 43 400 pour les usines de pâte et papier, 34 300 pour l'industrie du bois (scieries, contreplaqué, etc.). Pour l'exploitation forestière, 4 700 emplois existants concernent des opérateurs de débusqueuse, d'abatteuse et d'ébrancheuse, qui sont les travailleurs touchés par cette étude.

Au cours des dix dernières années, ce secteur a traversé une période de …

La Sécurité En Forêt - Amélioration Technique Des Machines De Récolte Forestière, Serge Massé, Vincent Cesta, Raymond Bélanger

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Le présent rapport traite des problèmes de sécurité et des problèmes techniques reliés à l'utilisation, à l'entretien et à la réparation de la machinerie forestière, en particulier, de l'abatteuse, de la débusqueuse et de l'ébrancheuse. Ces problèmes sont ici abordés dans l'optique d'accroître la sûreté de fonctionnement des équipements utilisés (pour une définition des termes en italiques, se référer au lexique de l'annexe 2).

On observait dans le secteur forestier, en 1984, un taux d'incidence des lésions de 28 %1 comparativement à 6,4 % pour l'ensemble des travailleurs du Québec; la durée moyenne d'indemnisation était, pour cette même année, de …

Contraintes D'Utilisation De La Prothèse Auditive En Milieu De Travail Bruyant, Raymond Hétu, Hung Tran Quoc, Yves Tougas

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Ce projet visait à contribuer à la solution de deux problèmes: a) il y a un manque de critères valides pour juger des capacités auditives après correction de personnes atteintes de surdité en vue de l'occupation d'un emploi dans les milieux bruyants néccessitant la détection d'avertisseurs sonores de danger; b) les intervenants en réadaptation des victimes atteintes de surdité professionnelle sont souvent réticents à prescrire l'utilisation d'une prothèse auditive lorsque la personne continue à occuper un emploi à un poste bruyant. En voulant les protéger contre un risque d'aggravation de leur surdité, ils privent ces personnes d'un des moyens les …

Analyse Chimique Et Morphologique Des Poussières Aéroportées Dans L'Environnement De Travail Des Fondeurs, Guy Perrault, Chantal Dion, Claude Ostiguy, Daniel Michaud, Marcel Baril

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Chez les fondeurs, différentes pathologies du système respiratoire peuvent se manifester tels que des silicoses ou autres fibroses aux poussières mixtes (1-4), des obstructions bronchiques (6,7) et possiblement des cancers du poumon (8-12). Les connaissances (13-26) sur la composition chimique et morphologique des poussières inorganiques et des fumées métalliques sont peu développées. La première étape de gestion du risque à la santé des fondeurs provenant de l'inhalation des poussières et fumées métalliques se situe au niveau de l'identification physicochimique de ces contaminants.

Le projet de recherche consistait à déterminer les caractéristiques physico-chimiques et morphologiques des poussières et des fumées métalliques …

La Mesure Des Bruits Impulsionnels, Henri Scory

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Dans le contexte de la réglementation québécoise actuelle, qui s'appuie sur une norme instrumentale datant de plus de 20 ans, la mesure des bruits industriels impulsionnels peut être entachée d'erreurs systématiques causées par le type d'instrumentation utilisé pour l'échantillonnage.

Compte tenu des progrès considérables survenus durant la dernière décennie dans développement et dans la normalisation des caractéristiques des instruments de mesure du bruit, de telles erreurs ne sont plus admissibles.

L'échantillonnage d'une quinzaine de bruits impulsionnels industriels, correspondant à des situations d'exposition professionnelle fréquentes, a permis de mettre en évidence les différences entre les résultats de mesures de niveaux moyens …

Influence Des Expositions À Des Contaminants Multiples En Milieu De Travail Sur Les Paramètres De Surveillance Biologique De L'Exposition, Robert Tardif, Jules Brodeur

Rapports de recherche scientifique

La surveillance biologique de l'exposition représente une étape importante de l'exercice d'appréciation du risque toxique, et à ce titre elle permet de prendre des décisions ayant pour objet la prévention des effets nocifs reliés à l'exposition à des contaminants chimiques. De la qualité des données recueillies à l'occasion de la surveillance biologique de l'exposition dépendront donc la pertinence et la nature des décisions ayant pour objet la prévention de la toxicité.

L'expérience nous enseigne toutefois qu'un ensemble fort complexe de facteurs est susceptible d'agir sur les paramètres de surveillance biologique de l'exposition, modifiant la valeur de ces paramètres et faussant …

Atteintes Musculosquelettiques Reliées Au Travail Répétitif Dans Le Secteur Électrique : Résumé, Marie St-Vincent, Denise Chicoine, Sylvie Beaugrand

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Le projet origine d'une demande adressée à l'IRSST par l'Association paritaire pour la santé et la sécurité du travail - Secteur fabrication de produits en métal et produits électriques. La demande faisait suite à une enquête de perception effectuée par l'ASP auprès du secteur électrique. Cette enquête a montré que dans le secteur électrique, l'une des préoccupations majeures en santé-sécurité était les atteintes musculo-squelettiques reliées au travail répétitif.

Le secteur électrique regroupe quelque 24 460 travailleurs répartis dans environ 400 usines. Le secteur se caractérise par une grande hétérogénéité quant aux types de production des différentes usines. Avant d'entreprendre le …

Determining The Effects Of Environmental Issues Instruction On Iowa Teachers, Paul P. Torbert

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the Environmental Issues Instruction (eii) program. The study utilized the pre-experimental one-group pre-test post-test survey design with a retrospective pre-test. Statistical analysis of four issue topics revealed 198 participants attained two-tailed probability levels less than the .01 level of significance. Analysis of teacher grade levels revealed kindergarten through eighth grade teachers attained two-tailed probability levels less than the .01 level of significance. Ninth through twelfth grade teachers also attained two-tailed probability levels less than the .01 level of significance with one exception. The researcher concludes that the Environmental Issues …

Evaluation Of The Provision For A University Health Service As Part Of The Quality Assurance Process, Rob Chandler, Barry Sheridan

Research outputs pre 2011

Universities within Australia are facing increasing demands to demonstrate quality in both product and process by ensuing that their aims are met efficiently and effectively. As part of the quality assurance process for Edith Cowan University, a multi-campus institution, an evaluation was undertaken to monitor the effectiveness of the University health service and its significance within the University community. Responses from both staff and students to a survey conducted during August 1993 on behalf of the Department of Medical and Health Services indicate a high level of support for this service. This Report provides an overview of the evaluation study …

The Relationship Of Locus-Of-Control And Altruism To Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Providers Universal Precaution Practices, Joanne L. Wakeham

Health Services Research Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between locus of control, altruism, occupational risk, and personal factors to the frequency of universal precautions practices of prehospital emergency medical care providers. The effects of OSHA's Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens; Final Rule on reducing prehospital emergency medical care providers occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens were also examined. Prehospital emergency medical care providers from municipal and private EMS agencies in the Tidewater Emergency Medical Services region participated in this study. Prehospital emergency medical care providers self-reported perceptions of locus of control, altruism, occupational risk, and universal precautions practices were …

Foreword: Health Care Reform In The United States—The Presidential Task Force, Lawrence O. Gostin

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This essay serves as the foreword to Implementing U.S. Health Care Reform, a symposium held in 1993.

The exact specifications of the new health care system depend on the package that President Clinton will send to Capitol Hill and the changes that Congress will make in the reform package. Some of the basic structures and organizing principles of the new system that are being considered by the President are already the subject of intense public scrutiny.

The design being considered would involve new relations between the federal government and the states, between the public and private sectors, and between …

Do People Who Have Participated In A Work Hardening Program Perceive Benefits From Group Psychological Counseling In Controlling Or Decreasing Chronic Low Back Or Neck Pain?, Antonio Cofer

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Substance Abusers' Field Dependence & Time Spent In Rehabilitative Therapy, Robert Fane

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This project was designed to determine if significant differences existed between the level of psychological differentiation, as determined by the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT), of individuals entering a treatment center for chemical dependency and the length of stay at the facility.

The subjects consisted of 43 white males who were seeking treatment for addiction to mood altering chemicals at a regional treatment facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Each subject was interviewed to collect pertinent background information pertaining to past substance abuse and was evaluated to determine psychological differentiation, utilizing the GEFT.

It was determined through an analysis of variance …

“Planem Family Blong Iu”: Poster Art In The Solomon Islands, Judith Fitzpatrick

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Transcript Of Interview With Dr. Louise Caudill And Susie Halbleib (Interview 2), Claire Louise Caudill, Susie Halbleib, Shirley Gish

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

A transcript of the first interview of Dr. Louise Caudill and Susie Halbleib, conducted by Shirley Gish, about Dr. Caudill's life and career.

Correlates To Performance On Field Tests Of Muscular Strength, Jeffrey A. Woods, Russell R. Pate, Maria L. Burgess

Faculty Publications

Field tests of upper body muscular strength and endurance (UBMSE) are often administered to children, but little is known about the determinants of performance on these tests. Therefore the purpose of this investigation was to examine potential determinants of performance on several common field tests of UBMSE including pull-ups, flexed-arm hang, push-ups, and two types of modified pull-ups. Subjects were 56 girls, and 38 boys, ages 9 to 11 years. Potential determinants assessed were age, height, weight, gender, % fat, physical activity, and laboratory measures of muscular strength and endurance. Multiple regression analysis revealed that the laboratory measures of UBMSE …

Transcript Of Interview With Dr. Louise Caudill And Susie Halbleib (Interview 1), Claire Louise Caudill, Susie Halbleib, Shirley Gish

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

A transcript of the second interview of Dr. Louise Caudill and Susie Halbleib, conducted by Shirley Gish, about Dr. Caudill's life and career.

Ua12/12 Your Healthstyle, Wku Wellness Center

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the Wellness Center regarding services, health and fitness.

Ua12/4 Commuter Link, Vol. 1, No. 1, Wku Health Services

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created for non-traditional students returning to WKU.

Ua66/4/2 Allied Health Department Newsletter Issue No. 3, Wku Allied Health

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about WKU Allied Health.

Evaluation Of The Ihs Urban Health Business Office Concept, American Indian Health Care Association, M.A. Foster

Native Health Database Full Text

Purpose The "Evaluation of the IHS Urban Health Business Office Concept," commonly called the Supplementary Security Income (SSI) Project, was a ten month grant demonstration project that was contracted to the American Indian Health Care Association (AIHCA) by the Indian Health Service (IHS) with cooperation of the Social Security Administration (SSA). The SSA was mandated to increase minority and target population enrollment for SSA benefits. The SSA provided funding to the IHS to oversee a project designed to locate and assist urban American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) in applying for SSI.

Localization Of The Gene For Men 2a, Jay B. Lichter, Michael Difilippantonio, Jingshi Wu, Diane Miller, David C. Ward, Paul J. Goodfellow, Kenneth K. Kidd

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

The search for the gene that causes the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN 2A) syndrome is entering a new phase. Genetic linkage studies have localized the gene to the pericentromeric region of chromosome 10. The statistical portion of mapping the gene for MEN 2A is nearly complete and now classical molecular biological/gene mapping techniques will be employed. We have used fluorescence in situ hybridization to estimate the size of the MEN2A region to be about 2 to 5 mb, using some liberal assumptions; at worst the region should contain no more than about 10 mb of non-alphoid DNA. Our …

Microsurgical Lymph Node Dissection For Metastatic Asymptomatic C-Cell Carcinoma, Heinz J. Buhr, Friedrich Kallinowski, Friedhelm Raue, Christian Herfarth

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

In persistent, clinically inapparent medullary thyroid carcinoma, microsurgical dissection of all lymph node compartments of the neck was performed. Between August 1988 and September 1991, 28 cases (mean age 43.3 years) were treated with 38 surgical interventions. Twenty patients had the sporadic form and eight patients the familial form. Unilateral neck dissection resulted in normalization of serum calcitonin (CT) levels even after pentagastrin stimulation in two patients whereas 16 patients exhibited abnormal CT stimulation tests. Eight of ten patients who had bilateral neck dissections had positive pentagastrin test results after surgery. The main postoperative complications included loss of local cutaneous …

Cutaneous Lesion Associated With Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2a: Lichen Amyloidosis Or Notalgia Paresthetica?, O. Chabre, F. Labat, N. Pinel, F. Berthod, V. Tarel, I. Bachelot

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Three patients of a French family demonstrated an association of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN 2A) with a pruritic scapular skin lesion. The lesions are similar to those described as familial cutaneous lichen amyloidosis in unrelated MEN 2A and medullary thyroid carcinoma families, but histological, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural analysis of skin biopsies from each patient in the French family did not show amyloid deposition. The topography of the lesion follows dermatomes C8-D3. The patients report not only pruritus but also paresthesia and hyperalgesia, and one showed touch hypoesthesia and pain hyperesthesia in the area of the lesion. Such an …

Primary Hyperparathyroidism In Patients With Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1: Experience By A Single Surgical Team In Japan, Takao Obara, Yoshihide Fujimoto, Yukio Ito

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Nineteen patients were surgically treated for hyperparathyroidism associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 syndrome. Fourteen patients (74%) had removal of three or more parathyroid glands at the first operation, and five (26%) by removal of 2 1/2 or fewer glands. Two patients had recurrent hypercalcemia during the mean follow-up period of 65 months. One had a recurrence 10 years after subtotal parathyroidectomy. Reexploration in this patient revealed enlargement of the remaining tissue in the neck and an enlarged supernumerary gland in the aorticopulmonary window. The other patient had persistent hypercalcemia after removal of two hyperplastic parathyroid glands until after …

Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: Australian Experience With Genetic Testing, Janet L. Ward, Valentine J. Hyland, David S. Andrew, Debbie J. Marsh, Bruce G. Robinson

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Linkage analysis has been performed in four pedigrees with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN 2A) or familial medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) using pericentromeric chromosome 10 probes. Important information regarding carrier status has been provided in 10 individuals, many of whom would not have been identified by pentagastrin stimulation testing. We have also used pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) to link the probes H4JRBP and pMCK2 to a 150 kb fragment. Using PFGE, no evidence was found in DNA from lymphocytes of a major DNA rearrangement in two individuals affected with MEN 2A and an individual with MEN 2B compared …

Oncogene And Growth Factor Expression In Men 2 And Related Tumors, Jeffrey F. Moley, Göran K. Wallin, Michele B. Brother, Michael Kim, Samuel A. Wells Jr., Garrett M. Brodeur

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Pheochromocytomas occur sporadically or in individuals affected by inherited syndromes including multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) type 2A and 2B, neurofibromatosis, and the von Hippel-Lindau syndrome (vHL). Medullary thyroid carcinomas (MTCs) also occur sporadically or as part of MEN 2A, MEN 2B, and familial MTC. Little is known of the molecular genetic background of these tumors. We have shown previously that activation of the N-ras, H-ras, and K-ras oncogenes does not occur in these tumors, but that deletions of the short arm of chromosome 1 are extremely common (> 60%) and may indicate loss of a suppressor gene in the chromosomal …

Mineral Metabolic Effects Of Thyroidectomy And Long-Term Outcomes In A Family With Men 2a, Henry G. Bone Iii, Leonard J. Deftos, William H. Snyder, Charles Y. C. Pak

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

We have followed a family with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A for 18 years. Four members have undergone total thyroidectomy for medullary thyroid carcinoma or C-cell hyperplasia, and one has required bilateral adrenalectomy for pheochromoctyoma. None has developed hypercalcemic hyperparathyroidism, although parathyroid hormone levels were relatively high prethyroidectomy and fell postoperatively in the patients with high calcitonin levels. In three of the four cases, intestinal calcium absorption decreased following thyroidectomy.

Statistical Analysis Of Histomorphological Findings In Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: Distinction Between The Different Familial Forms Of The Disease, B. Franc, M. Rosenberg-Bourgin, B. Auvert, B. Caillou, N. Dutrieux-Berger, J. Floquet, M. Houcke-Lecomte, E. Justrabo, F. Labat-Moleur, M. F. Le Bodic, A. Pages, M. Patey, G. Viennet, F. Vilde, J. P. Saint-Andre

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

A multifactorial analysis of morphological findings was performed on 153 cases of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). The aim of the study was to utilize histological criteria to discriminate between MTC associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN 2A) and that associated with the inherited MTC only syndrome. The presence of fusiform cells associated with several other markers seemed to he more predictive of MEN 2A. A comparison of inherited MTC only and sporadic MTC only showed fusiform cells to be significantly less common in inherited MTC only. These results suggest that the inherited MTC only syndrome is a distinct …