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Pregnancy and fasting during Ramadan.

1992; BMJ; Volume: 304; Issue: 6830 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.304.6830.843-d

0959-8138

Jennifer A. Reeves,

Dietary Effects on Health

difficult, is one based on the balance of proba- bilities.More research is required and should focus on the general concept of work related disorders rather than be confined to the upper limb.If health promotion is to mean anything it should mean that going to work tends to engender fitness.This is why unemployment is considered to be bad for society in general and individual workers in particular.A more positive attitude should be taken towards work, and this should be embodied in the concept that to work is to keep fit.No one would suggest that all pain at work was caused by the work itself: it may be caused by sports injuries acquired over a weekend or be part of intercurrent disease.Hence the importance of the therapeutic test of altering circumstances at work to see if the symptoms remit.With the implementation of the European Com- munity's regulations for workers the medical professions and ergonomists will have to cooperate if pains are to be prevented.Staff working in district rheumatological, orthopaedic, and remedial ser- vices should work more closely with occupational physicians and ergonomists.Perhaps it is time for a combined medicoergonomics society.