Journal of UOEH
Online ISSN : 2187-2864
Print ISSN : 0387-821X
ISSN-L : 0387-821X
Volume 13, Issue 3
Displaying 1-11 of 11 articles from this issue
  • Kenzaburo TSUCHIYA
    Article type: Lecture
    1991 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 191-205
    Published: September 01, 1991
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    This paper was presented as a Lucas Lecture 1990 before the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom. It describes the development of occupational health in Japan including primitive industrialization (mining, smelting and others) back as far as the 8th century The modern industrialization of Japan began slightly over one hundred years ago, i. e. from the beginning to the middle of the Meiji era Before World War Ⅱ, Japanese workers in industry suffered terrible working conditions, represented by a booklet published in 1925 entitled "The Tragic History of Female Workers" by Wakizo Hosoi. At that time a pioneer named Dr. Gito Teruoka was hard at work. He literally became the "Father of Occupational Health" in Japan. He established the Kurashiki Institute of Science of Labour in 1921 in Kurashiki City located in western Honshu, which is the main island of Japan. At the beginning of the Showa era, from 1930 to 1950, various types of occupational diseases were reported and the situation was overviewed by Dr. Juko Kubota. The rapid industrialization immediately after World War Ⅱ during which workers were exposed to chromium, benzidine, β2-naphthylamine, arsenic, vinyl chloride monomer, asbestos, bischloromethyl ether and other chemicals gave rise to occupational cancer. The Ministry of Labour (MOL) was established in 1947 and the Labour Standard Law enacted. As a result, the incidence of tuberculosis decreased rapidly and occupational health emphasized the early detection of tuberculosis. After tuberculosis was nearly eradicated, more complicated working conditions developed in various industries. MOL enacted the Industrial Safety and Health Law in 1972 and occupational health practices improved greatly. Furthermore, in 1988 MOL amended the Law and announced guidelines on maintenance and promotion of health for the work population. However, there is a great disparity in occupational health services between large establishments and small factories. The University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan, (UOEH) was established in 1978 to promote occupational health sciences as well as to train and foster occupational health personnel to meet the short supply of occupational health physicians. However, there is no authority that establishes standards for occupational al health physicians and nurses. The urgent necessity of establishing an authorized institution for the qualification of occupational health personnel is emphasized.
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  • Jasper R. DAUBE
    Article type: Lecture
    1991 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 207-215
    Published: September 01, 1991
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  • Christopher P. Carman
    Article type: Original
    1991 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 217-226
    Published: September 01, 1991
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    The English language expands its vocabulary partly by borrowing words from other languages. When an English-speaking culture and a foreign culture have dynamic interaction, there is also a mutual exchange of loanwords by both languages. With the current dynamic interaction between Japan and North America, are more Japanese loanwords entering the English language? This paper presents a background to Japanese loanwords in English and presents a six-month survey of two popular American magazines to explore the contemporary borrowing of Japanese loanwords into English.
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  • Hajime HORI, Isamu TANAKA
    Article type: Original
    1991 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 227-234
    Published: September 01, 1991
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    A new adsorption device which is able to detect the breakthrough of organic solvent vapors was developed using a detecting reagent which is packed in a gas detector tube. The organic vapor which leaks from an activated carbon adsorption column reacts with the detecting reagent. The breakthrough is detected by the stain of the reagent. When the humidity of test air was zero, the reagent was stained sharply before the breakthrough was observed. However, in the case of using humid air, the color of the detecting reagent did not clearly change, even after the breakthrough had progressed considerably.
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  • Seiji YAMADA
    Article type: Original
    1991 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 235-240
    Published: September 01, 1991
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    The development of the habit of exercise is necessary for workers whose daily occupation prevents them from doing physical activities. However, few workers have acquired this habit of exercise. To motivate such workers, the validity of a calorie counter combined with an accelerometer (KENZ Calorie Counter or KENZ Calorie Counter α) was tested as a motivation tool for acquiring this habit. The subjects of this study were 14 volunteers. After 7 days' preliminary measurement of their physical activities by a calorie counter, they continued to measure the energy consumption of their physical activities over one month. Ten volunteers were able to continue the measurement, but 4 volunteers dropped out. The energy consumption of physical activities after one month measurement significantly (P < 0.001) increased to 70% more than that of the preliminary measurement. At the present time, nine volunteers are continuing to measure their daily energy consumption. The results suggest that the measurement of one's daily physical activities by a calorie counter is one of the best ways to develop the habit of exercise.
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  • Masaya MIYAGAWA, Atsukuni HARADA, Akio HORIE, Joji HARATAKE, Yoichi HA ...
    Article type: Case Report
    1991 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 241-249
    Published: September 01, 1991
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    Many papers have reported that Dieulafoy's ulcer is one of the notorious causes of gastric hemorrhage. Three cases of shallow subfundic ulcers with massive bleeding are reported. The resected specimens have demonstrated that elevated caliber-persistent artery (CPA), a branch of the left gastric artery with few anastomoses, in the base of the ulcer has tortuous penetration from the serosa to submucosa, showing patchy, eccentric intimal fibroelastosis. These findings of CPA are almost the same in both anterior and posterior walls, namely both the ruptured and contralateral sides. Thus, morphogenesis of the ulcer may have originated from anatomical deviation, which is related to regional hypertension aggravated by longterm peristalsis, as well as aging.
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  • Koichi KIMISHIMA, Kenji HACHISUKA, Hajime OGATA, Shoichi TANAKA, Fumih ...
    Article type: Case Report
    1991 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 251-255
    Published: September 01, 1991
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    We report a 69-year-old female suffering from post-polio syndrome. Though she experienced acute poliomyelitis at one year of age, she had been well until 67 years of age when she complained of muscle weakness and pain in her right lower extremity and gait disturbance. As she was admitted to our hospital for further evaluation and rehabilitation, we prescribed for her the rehabilitation program consisting of gait training with a supracondylar knee-ankle-foot orthosis, low-load repetitive muscle strengthening exercises, and continuous stretching of her right knee joint after heat treatment. She regained a stable gait with the orthosis. We thought that the disuse and overuse of the lower extremities played a part in the onset of post-polio syndrome and that the rehabilitation including the low-load repetitive muscle strengthening exercises and gait training with a supracondylar knee-ankle-foot orthosis was effective against her disability.
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  • Kazuya FUJISHIRO, Koji MORI, Naohide INOUE
    Article type: Case Report
    1991 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 257-260
    Published: September 01, 1991
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    The health and environmental problems of ethylene oxide gas sterilization in a hospital are reported. Eight nurses who had been engaged in the gas sterilization, sometimes operated the auto-sterilizer in an inadequate manner; they exposed more than several hundred ppm of ethylene oxide once or twice a week. The main acute effects on these nurses after massive exposure were headaches, general fatigue and irritation of the eyes and throat. But no signs of polyneuropathy were seen. This survey suggests that there is a great risk of ethylene oxide poisoning while sterilizing instruments in a hospital.
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  • Shinji MIYAKE
    Article type: Report
    1991 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 261-265
    Published: September 01, 1991
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  • Indoor Air International
    Article type: Press Release
    1991 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 267-268
    Published: September 01, 1991
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  • ICOH
    Article type: Annoucement
    1991 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 269-270
    Published: September 01, 1991
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