This OSHwiki article presents the Hungarian Spine Society (HSS) prevention programme set up to achieve daily physical education (DPE) with special posture-correcting exercises for all students. A sedentary lifestyle in children affects the development of their spine, its physiological curvature and...

The objective of this OSHwiki article is to show how public health actors were able to achieve mandatory prescription and gradual implementation of daily physical education (DPE) for all schoolchildren in Hungary and how the implementation was helped by medical professionals and by some ambitious...

This article shows how important it is to adopt a "life-course" approach for studying musculoskeletal conditions and musculoskeletal health. This approach gives potential for a better understanding of how and why musculoskeletal conditions occur over the life course and how musculoskeletal health...

This factsheets explain how continuous standing or sitting while working is a common source of discomfort and fatigue. Frequent changes of body positions, including alternating between sitting and standing, helps to avoid fatigue.

This short video (2'30 ") was designed by ANACT at the request of the State Secretariat in charge of pensions and occupational health in order to facilitate the deployment of quality teleworking in times of crisis and beyond. Does teleworking requires more control of the activity? Does it...

This article presents information about a type of sedentary behaviour: prolonged static sitting. It presents the magnitude of the problem, the health effects, workers at risks and examples of interventions.

This articles presents the origin of most MSDs. it lies in a mismatch between the external load and the capacity of the human body to resist biomechanical and physiological strain. Excessive forces can trigger different pathophysiological processes depending on the tissues affected. It is the...