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In oil refining, the injury and illness rate was 1.1 per 100 full-time workers versus 4.4 per 100 for the U.S. manufacturing sector overall.
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When hand sanitizers were placed in dorms at the University of Colorado, a study on infection control found that overall illness rate dropped by 20 percent and missed school days by 43 percent.
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But the rate of illness had no correlation with the frequency of chilies eaten, leading to speculation that other factors may be at work.
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Some studies show that Latinos and African-Americans are much more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia than whites, even though the illness occurs in all races at the same rate.
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That question, more or less, is answered in the affirmative by the new book A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness, by Nassir Ghaemi a Tufts University psychiatry professor.
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They also commit violent crimes at a rate only ever so slightly higher than those without a serious mental illness.
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Overall, it was estimated that the rate of undertreatment for medical conditions was 10% for those with severe mental illness.
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An economic analysis for the commission highlighted an "exceptionally low" employment rate for people with schizophrenia of 7%, as well as disrupted education - because the illness often develops in young adulthood.
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