... amongst seafarers. Issues such as fatigue, stress, depression and other mental health issues are seen frequently among the seafaring population. In addition, lifestyle issues and illness such as obesity, ...
... value used for screening, where we do not have such an indication and in a population where prevalence for many medical conditions is low. The cut-off points in quantitative or semi-quantitative tests, ...
... which can accurately assess psychological vulnerability[14]. The attempts have failed, because of false-positives, false-negatives and reluctance in the target population because of stigma[15]. The IMO/ILO ...
... screening a healthy population for possible medical conditions. Despite of this fact, some enhanced medical schemes include many of those tests as mandatory. (See later for a more detailed discussion ...
... of illness, injury and death in the local population. Unfortunately, this is lacking or not readily available for many of the major crewing countries. This means that comparisons cannot be made between ...
... be less than perfect. Key tests of validity There are several facets of validity. Any information or analysis needs to be assessed in terms of these. Is the data from a population that is representative ...
... studies have the advantage of defining an at risk population in advance and then following their subsequent patterns of health using pre-set diagnostic criteria. They have formed the basis for many of ...
... they are a population at risk. Risk assessment For centuries seafarers have been aware of the risk of being bitten by mosquitoes and acquiring disease when visiting areas where such disease is prevalent. ...
... of infection, occupational disease transmission and the occurrence of clinical disease in the population of seafarers is very limited. However, in our personal experience as practicing port physicians ...
... aircraft carrier an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred in 1997 during coastal exercises in Japan. A cross-sectional study showed an attack rate of 44% from the ship´s population of 4200 persons caused ...
... Columbia, Canada which spread to several hospitals and caused 12 cases of disease and 14 colonisations (5). MRSA prevalence in resource-limited countries in Asia and Africa and in the seafarer´s population ...
... population is infected. The majority of acute Hepatitis B infections remain asymptomatic although 30-50% of adults present with an acute illness with jaundice, fever and abdominal pain. The incubation ...
... global population of seafarers cannot, by the nature of the profession and organization of the international and national shipping fleet, be described and studied as such. Seafaring includes many different ...
... either the individual level based on personal risk factors, for example, weight management or smoking cessation, or more commonly, including the whole target population, for example, exercise. The development ...
... interaction with the technical and organisational context’36 (p. 174). Occupational Hazards and Suicide in the Seafaring Population Fatigue, isolation and a lack of social contact have all been adversely ...
... account of the nature of the task and its implications for the human. Design for the target population and the whole user experience. Drive and refine the design by user-centred evaluation and use ...
... on the human health of populations living around the Mediterranean Sea linked to the invasion of non-indigenous marine species from the Red Sea: A review. Toxicon. 2021; 191: 69–82, doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2020.12.012, ...
... of it. To this end, a questionnaire was developed: the Motion Sickness Susceptibility Questionnaire. Buyuklu et al. [14] report that, in a population in whom this test was administered, 75% of subjects ...
... The provision of medical care within a country may be variable depending on location and population. Not all ports, towns or even cities may have a full range of medical services depending on the level ...
... being portable and allow population analyses. Information should therefore be stored in a standardised way and port maritime physicians are to be encouraged to use, for example. ICPC2 (WHO International ...