Showing posts with label World Health Organization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Health Organization. Show all posts
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Noise Induced Health Threats

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Excessive noise that has dominated the workplace throughout time is now associated as causing a plethora of serious health conditions. A re...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Water is Work - World Water Day March 22, 2016

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Today's post is shared from .unwater.org and from cdc.gov Water is critical to work, health and safety. World Water Day 2016, sponsor...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Exporting Illness Worldwide: Heavy Metal Contamination From a U.S. Owned Smelter in Peru

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English: The La Oroya train station 1921 (Photo credit:  Wikipedia ) Today's post is shared from Occupational Knowledge Internatio...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Fear of Ebola Breeds a Terror of Physicians

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Healthcare professional face serious and fatal virus infections overseas. The conditions contrated within the course of thier employment m...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Ask Well: Nanoparticles in Sunscreens

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Today's post is shared from nytimes.com. Workers' in an outdoor environment are exposed the the sun's rays. The question arises ...
Friday, July 18, 2014

Healthcare workers killed by Ebola’s worst outbreak ever

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The global trade union federation Public Services International condemns the preventable deaths of dozens of healthcare workers, killed on...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Global cancer burden rises to 14.1 million new cases in 2012: Marked increase in breast cancers must be addressed

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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization , today released t...
Friday, November 29, 2013

US manufactures try to stop carcinogen classification

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Today's post is shared from tuc.org US industry groups are trying to reverse a decision by the U.S. National Toxicology Program to s...
Monday, November 25, 2013

These Are The 36 Countries That Have Better Healthcare Systems Than The US

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12 years ago, the World Health Organization released the World Health Report 2000 . Inside the report there was an ambitious task — to...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Air pollution a leading cause of cancer - U.N. agency

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Today's post was shared by RWJF PublicHealth and comes from www.reuters.com The air we breathe is laced with cancer-causing substanc...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Outdoor air pollution: a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths

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The specialized cancer agency of the WHO, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) , announced that it has classified outdoor...
Monday, October 14, 2013

U.S. asbestos imports condemned by health experts, activists

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Today's post was shared by Linda Reinstein and comes from www.publicintegrity.org More than 50 countries have banned asbesto...
Friday, October 4, 2013

11 Barriers to Hand Hygiene Compliance

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Today's post was shared by votersinjuredatwork and comes from www.beckersasc.com Time pressure is one of the biggest reported bar...
Thursday, August 9, 2012

Cell Phone and Brain Malignancies: The Right to Know Radiation Act

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(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) As the controversy continues to rage over whether cell phone radiation can be linked to an increased risk of ...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Occupational Health: An International Effort Launched by WHO

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a global effort to promote the improvement of working conditions.  WHO has developed a Glo...
Monday, November 21, 2011

WHO Concludes Occupation Exposure to Bitumens Can Cause Cancer

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The World Health Organization (WHO) /International Agency for Research on Cancer’s Monographs programme re-evaluated various occupations t...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

WHO Urges Worldwide Asbestos Ban: Mesothelioma Rates Surge

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The World Health Organization urges a worldwide ban on asbestos productions, as deaths from mesothelioma continue to escalate: "In co...