ABSTRACT
This article highlights promotional strategies that are currently in use in occupational health which have yielded positive results in terms of cost-effectiveness and the prevention of occuptional disease. Suggestions are offered on the possible extrapolation of these strategies to disease prevention programmes in medical practice in the Caribbean Region.
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Humans , Health Education/methods , Occupational Health , Health Promotion/methods , Quality of Life , West Indies , Health Status IndicatorsABSTRACT
This article highlights an outbreak of food poisoning, the result of ingestion of Ciguatoxin-infected fish in a community. The case presentations of the patients involved are used to illustrate the clinical aspects of Ciguatoxin poisoning. The public health aspects of this incident and their relevance to disease surveillance are then discussed. Information of significance to general medical practice in relation to this particular type of fish poisoning, the effect of which could prove fatal in some cases, is also discussed
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Humans , Infant , Child, Preschool , Child , Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Male , Female , Fishes, Poisonous , Disease Outbreaks/prevention & control , Ciguatoxins/poisoning , Foodborne Diseases/etiology , Foodborne Diseases/epidemiology , JamaicaABSTRACT
The importance of occupational health practice principles in the delivery of health care to the working population is stressed by the authors' management of the an incident of occupational pesticide poisoning. The clinical management of the patients involved, as well as the occupational and environmental health management of that incident, is discussed. An illustrative case report is used to describe an occurrence of carbofuran pesticide poisoning in three female farm workers in Jamaica. This report highlights the implications and significance of this incident in terms of sensitivity of the medical profession to similar occupational health problems