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 ...

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 ...

1 School of Occupational and Public Health, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 3 ...

Correspondence to Dr Julia E Heck, Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA; jeheck{at}ucla.edu Objectives We examined ...

3 Centre for Prevention and Health Services Research, Public Health and Health Services Division, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands 4 Institute for ...

Objectives Human exposure to wood smoke particles (WSP) impacts on human health through changes in indoor air quality, exposures from wild fires, burning of biomass and air pollution. This ...

Correspondence to: Dr C M Espino, Human Resources, Latin America/Caribbean Region, The World Bank Group, 1818 H Street, Washington, DC 20433, USA; cespino{at}worldbank.org Objectives: Spouses and ...

Correspondence to: Prof. D Koh, Professor and Head, Department of Community, Occupational, and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore; cofhead{at}nus.edu.sg A complaint ...

Correspondence to: Dr IJ Kant, Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands; IJ.Kant{at}epid.unimaas.nl In 1998, a large scale prospective cohort ...

Objectives This study investigates the impact of different work paces on cardiorespiratory outcomes, perceived effort and carried load (CL) in industrial workers. Methods A randomised cross-over trial ...

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 ...

Background: The nested case-control design can be a very efficient approach to an epidemiological investigation. In order to obtain unbiased estimates of relative risk, controls should be selected by ...