Arthritis is a disease of tile joints that causes pain and musculoskeletal st i ffuess, and may cause limitation of joint movement. Age, obesity, smoking behavior, and occupation are risk factors for rheumatic diseases. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the role of body mass index (BMI), smoking behavior, and occupation on rheumatic disease among persons of productive age in In…
Eye injury can be caused by several kinds of objects, can cause pain, decrease of eye equity and cataract formation in affected eye. Purposes. To identify the kind of eye injury and to analyze between the blunt eye injury and cataract among agriculture farmers in 4 villages at Teluk Jambe Barat, Karawang Sub district. Methods. A cross sectional designed study was done, with 1223 samples aged 30…
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a disorder caused of medianus narve entromen in carpal tunnel in the wrist and give many symptoms as pain, numbness and hyperesthesia at nerve medianus area CTS is related to repetitive biomechanical movement in hand at work. The scope of this study was development of an educational model to prevent carpal tunnel syndrome among workers at several garment factorie…
Background: Low back pain is one of the common musculoskeletal disorders that can cause worker’s absenteeism and decrease of productivity. Work posture, body height, and individual factors to low back pain complain among garment workers Methods: A cross sectional study among 814 garment workers in North Jakarta. Samples were selected purposively with inclusion criteria (age less than 56 years…
Background: Low back pain is one of the common musculoskeletal disorders that can cause worker’s absenteeism and decrease of productivity. Work posture, body height, and individual factors to low back pain complain among garment workers Methods: A cross sectional study among 814 garment workers in North Jakarta. Samples were selected purposively with inclusion criteria (age less than 56 years…
Cataract is a lens apacity that causes problem on visual acuity. Sixteen percents of cataract blindness in Indonesia were suffered by productive-age people. The paper was to asses the role of cataract determinants in Indonesia. A descriptive analytic designed study was done using National Basic Health Research 2007 data, with 433.402 samples aged 30 years and above in Indonesia. Cataract was di…
Cataract is a leading cause of curable blindness. Hence, in its global declaration of Vision 2020 Right to Sight, the World Health Organization (WHO) encouraged its member countries to address the problem of incidents catract. Many factors are related to the cataract coverage rate, such as gender and diabetes mellitus. The objective of this study was to determine the cataract surgical coverage …