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Women engaged in a home-based "Papad-making" industry
Year : 2008Sima Roy1, Aparajita Dasgupta2 1 Department of Community Medicine, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India
2 Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Kolkata, India
Background: The 'papad-making' industries of India have provided ample opportunity of employment for the women workers of low socio-economic class although their problems are not much explored. In this study an attempt had been made for the same.
Aims: 1.To find out the health status of the women.
2. To find out the factors, in the working conditions, influencing their health status.
3. To assess their felt needs. Settings: A slum area of Kolkata.
Business to Business programe Vietnam
The Embassy of Denmark in Hanoi applies an ambitious approach to the theme of environment and occupational health and safety in order to contribute to setting high standards in the Vietnamese economy. Within the framework of the Business-to-Business (B2B) Programme the Embassy promotes awareness and actions related to these subjects.In order to achieve support for establishing a project in Vietnam under the B2B Programme the Vietnamese and Danish partners need to address and implement actions with relation to external environment and occupational health and safety. In general, it is required that Danish standards are applied on both matters in all projects. The B2B Programme supports these improvements.
Respiratory symptoms among sisal workers Tanzania
Acute respiratory symptoms among sisal workers in TanzaniaAkwilina V. Kayumba1,2,3, Magne Bråtveit2, Yohana Mashalla4 and Bente E. Moen2
1 Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
2 Department for Public Health and Primary Health Care, Section for Occupational Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
3 Directorate of Occupational Health Services, Tanzania Occupational Health Services, PO Box 3520, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
4 Department of Physiology, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Background Few studies have focused on respiratory health effects among sisal workers.
