Respiratory protection includes devices and management techniques for keeping people safe from hazardous materials. This handbook presents the state-of-the-art in respiratory protection technology as well as best management practices for work centers. Included are topics relevant to industry, government, and healthcare that provide guidance and tools for ensuring the best possible protection for workers. Most books on this topic are at least 20 years old. Research, technology and management techniques have advanced over the past two decades. This new handbook is needed to provide updated information relevant to today's occupational needs for industrial hygiene and safety professionals.
Newly updated, Agricultural Medicine: Rural Occupational Health, Safety, and Prevention, Second Editionis a groundbreaking and comprehensive textbook and reference for students and practitioners of public health, and professionals in the field of rural agricultural occupational health and safety. The book introduces specific occupational and environmental health and safety issues faced by agricultural workers and rural residents, and provides a roadmap to establishing sustainable worker and public health support in agricultural communities. Responding to reader demand, Agricultural Medicine, Second Edition now features more case studies, key point summaries, and new international perspective chapters comparing North American health and agricultural practices to those in Europe, the Asia Pacific, and South America. Agricultural health and safety engages a multidisciplinary team of medical professionals, veterinarians, safety professionals, engineers, sociologists, epidemiologists, and psychologists, for whom this book serves as an essential resource.
This book describes the century-long emergence and battle to protect drivers and occupants of off-road and on-road vehicles from crush-related injuries from rollovers. Deaths and serious injuries have been associated with vehicle overturns that involve tractors, other motorized machinery, automobiles, and small vehicles. It took more than a century to attend to much of this epidemic of death and disabling injury that resulted from these overturns. This book argues that a key factor in this response was epidemiology that reported rollover-related deaths and engineering revisionism that moved responses from “blame the victim” to rollbars to prevent the deaths.
With higher education turning towards data analytics as the next big advance in technology, it is important to look at how information is gathered and visualized for accurate comprehension, analysis, and decision-making. Packaging Digital Information for Enhanced Learning and Analysis: Data Visualization, Spatialization, and Multidimensionality brings together effective practices for the end-to-end capture and web based presentation of information for comprehension, analysis, and decision-making. This publication is beneficial for educators, trainers, instructional designers, web designers, and graduate students interested in improving analytical tools.
In this issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics, guest editor Jill A. Poole brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Environmental Issues and Allergy. - Provides in-depth reviews on the latest updates in Environmental Issues and Allergy, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.
An interdisciplinary overview of theory, history, and leading research in the field With a joint linguistic and medical perspective, The Handbook of Language in Public Health and Healthcare explores innovative approaches for improving clinical education, clinician-patient communication, assessment, and mass communication. Contributions by a diverse panel of experts address a wide range of key topics, including language concordance in clinical care, medical interpreting, the role of language as a social determinant of health, reaching linguistically diverse audiences during public health crises, assessing clinician language skills, and more. Organized into five parts, the Handbook covers the theory, history, and context of linguistics, language interpretation and translation, language concordance, medical language education pedagogy, and mass communication of health information with linguistically diverse populations. Throughout the text, detailed chapters present solutions and strategies with the potential to improve the health and healthcare of linguistically diverse populations worldwide. In an increasingly multilingual, global society, language has become a critical area of interest for advancing public health and healthcare. The Handbook of Language in Public Health and Healthcare: Helps professionals integrate language-appropriate communication in healthcare settings Addresses clinician-patient communication, assessment, research, and mass public health communication Offers key theoretical insights that inform the intersection of language, public health, and healthcare Highlights how various approaches in the field of linguistics have enriched public health and healthcare practices The Handbook of Language in Public Health and Healthcare is essential reading for undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional students of applied linguistics, health communication, and medicine. It is also an invaluable reference for language educators, clinicians, medical educators, linguists, health policy experts, and researchers.
In this issue of Immunology & Allergy Clinics, guest editors Drs. Rosalind Wright and Jeffrey Demain bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Climate Change and Allergy. Warming temperatures and increasing carbon dioxide from fossil fuels are contributing to more intense allergies. In this issue, top experts discuss the effects of climate change, including its impacts to food, water, and both indoor and outdoor air. - Contains 11 relevant, practice-oriented topics including nutrition and ecology; exposome and chemical exposure related to climate-related weather changes[RM1] ; psychological impacts of climate change and atopic disease; climate change and food allergy; extreme weather and asthma; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews on climate change and allergy, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
The purpose of this conference was to raise consciousness, build coalitions, disseminate information, and encourage action to prevent injury and diseases in agriculture. Covers surveillance; research in chemical, biological, mechanical and physical hazards; intervention (protecting agricultural workers from hazards, and safe behaviors among adults and children), and much more. Over 150 papers, poster and video abstracts. Charts, tables and maps. Index.
