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Baid, Rashmi; Agarwal, Rakesh

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“…Workers stated that starch can cause an itchiness, foul smell and make the gloves more slippery. Starch is considered as an irritant agent to workers hands and can induce type 1 hypersensitivity reactions and occupational asthma [33]. The high durability gloves would provide workers better safety, less worry, thus increasing their convenience.…”

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Initiating "Healthy Batik Village"/ “Desa Batik Sehat” to Empower Batik Workers Through Collaborative Health, Environmental and Social Interventions

Febriana

Oginawati

Tanziha

et al. 2021

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Background: Beautifully and colorfully dyed batik cloth is an Indonesian cultural heritage. Batik production exposes workers and the environment to various physical and chemical hazards. This interdisciplinary study aimed to assess the environmental and health parameters of batik workers, and apply environmental and health interventions to achieve environmentally friendly batik production with no human hazards.Methods: To assess the environmental pollutants, the wastewater quality parameters were measured. Air pollutant assessment was done using a low volume sampler. Liver, kidney function and blood chromium were compared between batik workers and healthy controls. Health interventions were done to choose the best gloves for the batik workers followed with assessing convenience level of selected gloves and identifying obstacles that prevent them from using gloves properly. The effectiveness of nerve gliding and wrist exercises in improving carpal tunnel syndrome clinical symptoms were evaluated. Environmental interventions were done by developing wastewater treatment technology using modified electrochemical systems. To assess the sustainability of the “Healthy Batik Village”, we analyzed batik owners’ and workers’ commitment using multi-dimensional scaling methods.Results:The parameters of water pollutants were above the national standard for wastewater, while theair pollutants were still below the standard threshold, withAl, Fe, Cu, and Zn having the highest breathing zone concentrations. There were significant differences (p<0.05) in liver and kidney function levels between batik workers and controls. The modified electrochemical system using graphene electrodes was effective to degrade the dyes used in batik production. Based on the market survey, literature study and comfort assessment, neoprene gloves were chosen as a test glove. Neoprene gloves were considered significantly more convenient compared to polyvinylchloride (PVC) gloves as the workers’ daily gloves (p<0.05).Nerve gliding exercises and wrist splints were effective in causing noticeable carpal tunnel syndrome clinical improvement. Improvements in workers' health, high quality of batik waste treatment, and an ideal management strategy are needed for the sustainability of the "Healthy Batik Village".Conclusion: This study showed there were occupational and environmental hazards exposed to the workers. The health, environmental, and social interventions executed are part of the implementation research to establish the “Healthy Batik Village”.

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Initiating "Healthy Batik Village"/ “Desa Batik Sehat” to Empower Batik Workers Through Collaborative Health, Environmental and Social Interventions

Febriana

Oginawati

Tanziha

et al. 2021

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“…It was occasionally found in Africa and Asia since its epidemic occurred in the Yap Island, the Federal state of Micronesia (2007), French Polynesia (2013), Colombia (12), and Brazil (2015) (7, 19). As per estimation, from 2007 to 2016, ZIKV outbreak has affected several regions of America, Africa, Southeast Asia (20), Caribbean and western pacific island (21). In the United States, ZIKV cases have been reported in American Samoa, US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.…”

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“…In the United States, ZIKV cases have been reported in American Samoa, US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. In USA, the first ZIKV associated congenital microcephaly case was reported in Hawaii, in 2016 (21). Due to a high cross-reactivity rate of ZIKV it is often misdiagnosed as DENV as happened in the Yap Island.…”

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Zika Virus Potentiates the Development of Neurological Defects and Microcephaly: Challenges and Control Strategies

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Since the beginning of the Zika Virus (ZIKV) epidemic, thousands of cases presenting ZIKV symptoms were recorded in Brazil, Colombia (South America), French Polynesia and other countries of Central and North America. In Brazil, during ZIKV outbreak thousands of microcephaly cases occurred that caused a state of urgency among scientists and researchers to confirm the suspected association between ZIKV infection and microcephaly. In this review article we comprehensively studied scientific literature to analyze ZIKV relationship with microcephaly, recent experimental studies, challenge and shortcomings in previously published reports to know about the current status of this association. The evidences supporting the association of ZIKV infection with congenital microcephaly and fetal brain tissue damage is rapidly increasing, and supplying recent information about pathology, clinical medicine, epidemiology, mechanism and experimental studies. However, serious attention is required toward ZIKV vaccine development, standardization of anthropometric techniques, centralization of data, and advance research to clearly understand the mechanism of ZIKV infection causing microcephaly.

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“…I read the article on powdered gloves by Baid and Agarwal with interest. [ 1 ] The authors have highlighted the hazards of the powder in the gloves and the need for a ban of powdered gloves. Awareness of the harmful effects of powdered gloves among healthcare workers in Asia is still low.…”

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Powdered gloves

Srinivasan

2018

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

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Powdered gloves

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Initiating "Healthy Batik Village"/ “Desa Batik Sehat” to Empower Batik Workers Through Collaborative Health, Environmental and Social Interventions

Initiating "Healthy Batik Village"/ “Desa Batik Sehat” to Empower Batik Workers Through Collaborative Health, Environmental and Social Interventions

Zika Virus Potentiates the Development of Neurological Defects and Microcephaly: Challenges and Control Strategies

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