Temat: human environment - Katalog OPAC zbiorów

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Tytuł:: Leptospirosis - current risk factors connected with human activity and the environment
Autorzy:: Wasinski, B.
Dutkiewicz, J.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/50156.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2013
Wydawca:: Instytut Medycyny Wsi
Tematy:: leptospirosis
risk factor
human activity
environment
epidemiology
temperate zone
climate change
pathogenesis
zoonosis
Opis:: Leptospirosis is a widespread although recently neglected zoonosis recognized worldwide. The disease seems to be underestimated, especially in countries located in the temperate climatic zone. The presented article concerns the main characteristics of leptospirosis and describes formerly known and recently observed environmental, occupational and recreational risk factors significant in the spreading and pathogenesis of the disease. The aspects of epidemiology significant in the temperate climatic zone are emphasized. The majority of cited articles present cases of the disease reported from Europe or North America. Climatic changes (warming) and extreme weather events such as floods are potential risk factors of leptospirosis. Also, some socio-economic phenomena, such as the intensive migration of people resulting in the transfer of the infections acquired in tropical countries, or worsening of economic status in the cities, increase the probability of disease. Apart from the danger connected with rodents, which are the main vectors of leptospires, occurrence of the disease in dogs and cats can generate a higher risk of infection for humans. Infections may also be acquired during various types of agricultural work and during recreational activities, such as swimming. The results of recent investigations show that ticks are also potential vectors of leptospires. The more frequent emergence of leptospirosis in countries located in the temperate climatic zone emphasize the need to verify knowledge related to the risk of its appearance, and to consider this disease during diagnostic processes.
Źródło:: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine; 2013, 20, 2
1232-1966
Pojawia się w:: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: Mental wellbeing of children engaged in agricultural work activities and quality of family environment
Autorzy:: Lachowski, S
Lachowska, B.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/50391.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2007
Wydawca:: Instytut Medycyny Wsi
Tematy:: household
human health
Polska
child labour
agricultural family
child
agricultural work
child health
field
family health
family environment
work activity
Opis:: A considerable percentage of Polish children from agricultural families are engaged by their parents in performing work activities on farms. The performance of these tasks arouses various emotional reactions in children, from the feeling of threat, fear and anxiety, to the feeling of satisfaction, being contented and proud. The subjective feeling of happiness and life satisfaction is an extremely important factor affecting the mental health and functioning of a human being. The objective of the study was to show to what extent the quality of communication between children and parents, and the level of family cohesion and adaptability according to the Circumplex Model by D. H. Olson et al., modifi es children’s emotional reactions associated with the tasks performed. The study covered 192 children aged 12-13, whose parents were running a family farm. Growing up in a healthy family characterised by a balanced level of cohesion, adaptability and good communication with the father and mother, favours the occurrence in children of pleasant emotions in reaction to work which they undertake on behalf of their parents on a farm. In such families, more often than in families with bad communication and dysfunctional families (disengaged, rigid), children experience satisfaction, have a feeling of deepening bonds with their parents, and the feeling of being more adult and preparing themselves well for adult life. Family characteristics which are evidence of disorders in its functioning (lack of good communication with the father, mother, lack of bonds between family members, rigid, chaos in a family) co-occur with the child experiencing unpleasant emotional states in associated with the work performed, there occur feelings of dissatisfaction, unhappiness, unpleasantness, the feeling that it would be better to learn than to work.
Źródło:: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine; 2007, 14, 1
1232-1966
Pojawia się w:: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: Chronic respiratory symptoms of poultry farmers and model-based estimates of long-term dust exposure
Autorzy:: Guillam, M.T.
Pedrono, G.
Le Bouquin, S.
Huneau, A.
Gaudon, J.
Leborgne, R.
Dewitte, J.D.
Segala, C.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/51420.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2013
Wydawca:: Instytut Medycyny Wsi
Tematy:: chronic respiratory disease
poultry farm
farmer
long-term exposure
dust exposure
occupational exposure
respirable dust
task
environment monitoring
chronic bronchitis
bronchitis
human disease
occupational disease
Opis:: Objectives. The airborne contaminant exposure levels experienced by poultry farmers have raised concerns about the possible health hazards associated with them. Thus, a longitudinal project was instituted in France to monitor these exposures in poultry workers and to evaluate the long-term effect on health. Method. Sixty-three workers in two different poultry housing systems were included (33 from floor-based systems and 30 from cage-based systems). Personal dust concentrations (over 2 days) and activity patterns (over 14 days) were collected and then modeled to obtain average long-term estimates. Health data were collected by questionnaire. Results. The mean daily time spent in the cage system was more than 2 hours longer than in the floor system. Two main common tasks accounted for ~70% of this time. Dust concentrations were higher in the floor system than in the cage system. The concentrations for the 14 days of known activity patterns estimated using the statistical model agreed well with the measured values. Several chronic respiratory symptoms were significantly associated with the high levels of long-term exposure estimated by the model. The highest risk was for chronic bronchitis symptoms (>4-fold higher for exposures of 0.1 mg/m3 of respirable dust). Conclusion. The presented modeling strategy can be used to estimate the long-term average personal exposure to respirable dust, and to study the association between dust exposure and chronic respiratory symptoms. This population of workers will be followed-up in subsequent examinations (3 years later) to determine whether the predictive model is valid, and whether long-term dust exposure is related to the incidence of respiratory symptoms and changes in pulmonary functions.
Źródło:: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine; 2013, 20, 2
1232-1966
Pojawia się w:: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki