Nutrition at Work NAW Handbook - URDU

Acta medica Philippina, 2022

Occupational health and nutrition are closely related. Nutrition in the workplace plays an essential role in supporting workers' health through a balanced nutrition approach. Reciprocally Occupational health is an approach to solving nutritional problems in workers, which in turn impacts the nutrition and health of families and communities. The workplace-based nutrition promotion is one of the pillars of the occupational health approach to solving health problems among workers. The workers' health related to nutrition is still a big challenge; on the other hand, the workplace is a potential setting for solving workers' and community health and nutrition problems. Currently, the Southeast Asian Region has been facing multiple burdens of the workers/productive age nutrition problem. The problem of nutritional deficiency, especially iron and other nutrients deficiency anemia dominate in women workers, especially pregnant women. The prevalence of anemia in working women is high in some Asian countries such as Bangladesh,

3rd Symposium on Occupational Safety and Health Proceedings Book, 2019

Introduction: The food universe is very broad and has a lot to do with the culture of each region. However, the macronutrients' constitution: proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids can be adjusted in any diet, thus allowing food to be a way to promote health and quality of life and to lower the risk of work accidents by improving sleep quality. Objective: To amplify and update a non-labor diet application, aiming to indicate, among the existing diets, the one that allows greater work capacity, better performance and more health through the metabolic control. Methodology: The PRISMA methodology was applied in the bibliographic review. Scientific articles, indexed in international journals were searched in the following databases: Medline (searched via PMC-PUBMED Central) and Scopus and through JISSN. Using the keywords diets, "position stand", timing, nutrients, work performance, sleep, consensus and protein, combined three by three, as well as their respective variations. Results and discussion: 247 articles were found. After applying the eligibility criteria, only articles published in the last 5 years in journals, cross-sectional studies (in humans) with consent, and published in English were accepted. Duplicate articles were removed. Articles which were not related to the theme were excluded after reading the title and abstract, excluding 206 papers. In this study were included 41 papers. Out of the 41, 13 articles were added by cross-reference. In the MEDLINE search, the [SECT] filters-referring to the research section and [TW] were inserted for words present in the articles when searching composite words. Initially, the compositions of the several diets were addressed: Hypocaloric-LED and VLED, Low Fat-LFD, Low Carbohydrate-LCD, Ketogenic-KD, and Hypercaloric-HPD. Their main strengths and their main characteristics were fully addressed. Conclusion: It was concluded that the HPD, from all the diets, was the one that had the greatest practical relevance in work environment, once its results in the maintenance of a lean body mass, through its high ingestion frequency. The improvement of the health markers and the nocturnal vigil period reduction, reveal the effectiveness in improving working performance.

Contagion, 2023

Fulfillment of nutrition for workers can affect their level of health and work productivity. If nutritional needs are not met, it can have negative impacts on the body, such as work fatigue, decreased productivity, and decreased concentration. Aims of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of the implementation of work nutrition among government agency employees' in Jambi City. This research was conducted in Jambi City, especially at the Jambi City Public Works and Spatial Planning Service and the Jambi City Manpower, Cooperatives, and SMEs Service, which took place in April-October 2023 with a sample size of 58 respondents. Data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney test with α = 0.05. There were two intervention groups; the first group underwent intervention by providing occupational nutrition modules and mobile phone intervention, while group 2 was the control group. he results of the analysis showed no difference in diet (p = 0.926) or physical activity (p = 0.243) between intervention group and control group employees'. There were differences in safety behavior (p = 0.037), attitudes (p = 0.018), and motivation related to occupational nutrition (p = <0.001) between intervention group employees' and control groups of government agency employees' in Jambi City. In conclusion, the occupational nutrition package was not effective in improving the diet and physical activity of employees'. The work nutrition package is effective in improving knowledge, safety behavior, attitudes, and motivation related to work nutrition among employees' of government agencies in Jambi City.

Journal of Public Health Research

Health status of workers are crucial to maintain their productivity and it will impact on output per capita. This systematic review aims to evaluate the effectiveness of nutrition and health intervention in workplace setting and implication for further research. Articles were searched from PubMed, PMC, Cochrane Library (Trial), Science-direct, and Google scholar published from 2005-2020. Inclusion criteria was the intervention subject aged 19-64 years old with experimental randomized control trial (RCT) or non-RCT study design. Several keywords used for literature searching including “nutrition education in workplace”, “nutrition intervention in workplace”, and “workplace intervention”. Data were narratively described. Eleven studies were meet inclusion and exclusion criteria and further be reviewed. Five studies focused on intervene food environment in the workplace, four studies focused on nutrition education using different channels i.e., workplace visiting and emails, the other ...

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 2016

The increasing prevalence of overweight can be seen from the people who are overweight and obesity. North Sumatera is one of the provinces which has the higher prevalence of overweight and obesity than the national rate at 13% and 18.1%. One of the factors associated with overweight and obesity is food consumption. Poor dietary habbit, which is low in fiber and high in fat, can lead to weight gain. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of dietary habbit to nutritional status. The research used cross sectional design. The sample were 70 employee of Health Polytechnic Directorate, Health Ministry of Medan and taken by using total sampling technique. The measured factors were carbohydrate and fat intake, the type of food and nutritional status. The data were obtained based on the interviews using food recall, FFQ and questionnaires and measurement of IMT. Data were analyzed using chi square test. The results showed that there was a relationship between the adequate intake of carbohydrates (p = <0.001) and adequate intake of fat (p = 0.022) to nutritional status while the type of food consumed does not show relationship to nutritional status. It is recommended that The Management of Health Polytechnic Directorate, Health Ministry, Medan to do concealing, make policy and supervision to carry out continous sport, provide sports facilities which can be used by all employee to resolve the incident of overweight and obesity.

The primary objective of the present study was to find evidence of effective workplace interventions aimed at preventing chronic diseases of lifestyle. Specific objectives were: i) To search for published peer-reviewed articles on workplace interventions in healthy populations ii) To evaluate the quality and feasibility of related studies, based on pre-determined criteria iii) To develop evidence-based, best practice summaries; and Abstract Aim: The aim of this desktop study was to review all workplace interventions having a nutrition component, published in peer-reviewed literature between 1995 and 2006 by WHO, and to document activities that were successful, as well as possible barriers to their success. Methodology: A systematic review of workplace studies revealed 41 interventions, of which 30 complied with the predetermined search criteria. The following outcome measures were considered in the evaluation of the interventions: (i) changes in nutritional knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, intentions and stage of change; (ii) changes in dietary behaviours; (iii) changes in clinical/physical markers, such as: body weight or body-mass index (BMI), blood pressure (BP) or serum cholesterol concentrations; and (iv) process and/or policy outcomes.

The working adults are considered to work for more than 8 hours a day, which results in focusing poor dietary habits and lack of physical activities due to limited time. Dietary habits are the key factor that contributes to the nutritional status of an individual. The general objective of the study is to assess the dietary habits and nutritional status of the working adults of Mahalaxmi Municipality, Lalitpur district. The research methods employed in the study are cross-sectional descriptive study. The study population included bankers, GOs/I/NGOs workers, beautician, shopkeepers which were taken from Mahalaxmi Municipality of Lalitpur district. The majority of the working adults in Mahalaxmi Municipality, Lalitpur district falls within normal Body Mass Index (BMI). Only a small population of the sample are underweight and overweight. The daily eating habits of the working adults accounts cereals more in their meal followed by fruits and vegetables, milk and meat products, pulses and legumes and sugars and jaggeries. Additionally, the study shows that nutritional status of working adults is associated with daily consumption of cereals and pulses.

American journal of lifestyle medicine

Accounting and Finance Review (AFR), 2016

Objective – This study is based on the social welfare viewpoint of accounting. It examines the benefits of accrual accounting as a replacement for cash accounting as a measure to enhance public service transparency, accountability, and efficiency in the public sectors of Nigeria and Ghana. Methodology/Technique – This study is based on a sample of 375 respondents from the accounting, auditing and budgeting cadres and legislatives of the public sector in Nigeria. In the Ghana perspective, 25 high-ranking public servants in the accounting, auditing and budgeting cadres were interviewed for the study. Three hundred and twenty-six valid responses representing 87% of the samples in Nigeria and the Ghana context were retrieved for analysed via descriptive statistics. Findings – Findings indicate that there is a significant association between accrual accounting and transparency, accountability, and efficiency in the public sectors of Nigeria and Ghana. Novelty – This study has the potential for improving financial reporting in the public sector. It is useful to researchers and academics because its focus on societal accounting is of current interest to accounting professionals and researchers.

PLOS ONE 15(10), 2020

In this paper we present a new method for automatic transliteration and segmentation of Unicode cuneiform glyphs using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Cuneiform is one of the earliest known writing system in the world, which documents millennia of human civilizations in the ancient Near East. Hundreds of thousands of cuneiform texts were found in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries CE, most of which are written in Akkadian. However, there are still tens of thousands of texts to be published. We use models based on machine learning algorithms such as recurrent neural networks (RNN) with an accuracy reaching up to 97% for automatically transliterating and segmenting standard Unicode cuneiform glyphs into words. Therefore, our method and results form a major step towards creating a human-machine interface for creating digitized editions. Our code, Akkademia, is made publicly available for use via a web application, a python package, and a Github repository.