... of medical care and devotion to his work on minimizing community exposures to marine contaminants. Specifically, he has overseen the examinations of over 3,000 Faroe Islanders of five prospective studies ...
Viet Dung Vu is a PhD Candidate at Department of Maritime Studies, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. His project involves applying human-centred design methods to develop user interfaces for ...
Captain Evelyne ROGGE is a Master Mariner having over 25 years of sea experience and is in command for 17 years of LNG, FSRU, LPG, VLGC, chemical and light oil tankers. She has an extensive theoretical ...
... telemedicine, Inspection of Sanitation and Medical Chest on board, MLC2006, Training STCW2010. Epidemiological studies, many articles published, co-author in the students’ books and the Spanish Medical ...
... differs from the usual diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive practices most doctors know so well. Research in the field is at best sparse. The end-points in today’s research studies do not give us much ...
... we need to assess in medical selection. They seem to focus on so-called ‘hard end-points’, which means that many possible incidents are not included in the studies. Such studies consider relapse, re-intervention, ...
... the definition mentioned in Table 2. It is however not possible for doctors working with medical selection to specify how clinicians and epidemiologists structure their studies regarding risk bands. We ...
... conditions, a seafarer should be able to notice a shipwrecked person, debris in the water, a ship’s lanterns or rock awash. Snellen’s decimal notation requirement of 0.5 was not set based on studies demonstrating ...
... or with other catering duties. On some ships there is specialised work such as entertaining passengers, carrying out research studies, i.a. specialised operations using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs)[4], ...
... except at the level of a single ship. This makes the conduct of rigorous studies of the incidence or prevalence of disease or injury expensive and difficult to conduct. Health information on cadets Cadets ...
... them open to liability claims, either for direct costs or because of health related failures in performance that put the ship and other crewmembers at risk. They may resist studies that they consider are ...
TIM CARTER Introduction Any source of information will have some limitations. The better the design of any investigation, the better understood these will be. As noted, most studies to date have made ...
... on health risks The previous section outlines a model for considering the state of knowledge on seafarer health risks and their management. On review of the available studies up to 2011[2] [3] , most ...
... common health issues reported in migrants in 3 studies (7) (8) (9) are Respiratory tract infections/pneumonia Dehydration Nausea/vomiting/diarrhoea Scabies and other skin conditions Tuberculosis ...
... and International Studies (CSIS), 2019. [9] Robert M. Shelala II, Maritime Security in the Middle East and North Africa: A Strategic Assesment, CSIS, 2016, [Available from https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/legacy_files/files/publication/140206_maritime_security_shelala_report.pdf. ...
... a cardiac arrest and this group is overrepresented in seafarers. Clinical and statistical studies have also identified additional contributing factors on board a working vessel – hypothermia, electrocution, ...
... vivax may have an incubation period of up to 12 months. Classic symptoms are fever, chills, diarrhoea, headache, fatigue or anorexia. Malaria in seafarers Numerous studies have investigated malaria ...
... vary. Several longitudinal studies of the epidemiology of illnesses among passengers from medical log books on cruise ships described large outbreaks of Influenza A and B and currently COVID-19. Acute ...
... studies in the United States have linked clinical H. pylori infection with consumption of H. pylori-contaminated well water (2). There are few studies that evaluated the risk of H. pylori transmission ...
... had doubled. No studies are available on the prevalence of the infection and/or colonization in patients and staff of ship hospitals in passenger ships. The relevance of global travel and transport ...