OBJECTIVES In a cross sectional study, work related health complaints and diseases of 58 compost workers and 53 biowaste collectors were investigated and compared with 40 control subjects. Levels of ...

Aims: (1) To describe the prevalence of fatigue among employees in different work schedules (day work, three-shift, five-shift, and irregular shift work); (2) to investigate whether different work ...

1 Department of Public Health, Gulou District Hua Qiao Road Community Health Service Center, Nanjing, China 2 Department of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, ...

Correspondence to Axel Andersson, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg Sahlgrenska Academy, Goteborg, Sweden; axel.andersson.2{at}gu.se The Nicaraguan data will be ...

Objective: There is limited information on the public health impact of wildfires. The relationship of cardiorespiratory hospital admissions (n = 40 856) to wildfire-related particulate matter (PM 2.5) ...

OBJECTIVE To study the relation between neck pain and work related neck flexion, neck rotation, and sitting. METHODS A prospective cohort study was performed with a follow up of 3 years among 1334 ...

1 Department of Social Medicine, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2 Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Centre Amsterdam, van der Boechorststraat 7 ...

Background Exposures leading to irritant-induced asthma (IIA) are poorly documented. Methods We retrospectively screened the medical records of patients with IIA diagnosed in an occupational medicine ...

Program in Physical Therapy, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Correspondence to: A/Prof. P M Ludewig Program in Physical ...

Correspondence to: Prof. T S Kristensen National Institute of Occupational Health, Lerso Parkalle 105, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark; tskami.dk If you wish to reuse ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the occurrence and persistence of two restrictively defined neck-shoulder disorders among sewing machine operators. To assess factors associated with the development of ...

Correspondence to Dr Luoping Zhang, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; luoping{at}berkeley.edu; Dr Martha S Sandy, Office of Environmental Health ...