Predictors of blood lead levels in agricultural villages practicing wastewater irrigation in Central Mexico.

abstract：:Identification of workers who are at high risk and at low risk as a result of participation in the cleanup of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station ("liquidators") is important both for scientific research and for the medical care of the individuals involved. Using register data for 3...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Shantyr II II,Nikiforov AM,Romanovich IK,Schwartz VA,Makarova NV,Deryapa LN,Saygina EB

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop a worker safety training program for its public hospital system, the Costa Rican Social Security System entered into a collaborative agreement with the University of Texas School of Public Health. A national survey to assess safety in the public hospitals revealed high rates of injury and under-reporting of...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Felknor SA,Sequeira LF,Weinger M,Burau KD,De Mezerville L,Delclos G

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Georgia has prostate cancer incidence rates consistently above the national average. A notable portion of Georgia's economy is rooted in agricultural production, and agricultural practices have been associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer. METHODS:Statistical analyses considered county age-adju...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Welton M,Robb SW,Shen Y,Guillebeau P,Vena J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Networking collaborative research and training in Asian developing countries includes three types of joint activities: field studies of workplace potentials for better safety and health, intensive action training for improvement of working conditions in small enterprises, and action-oriented workshops on low-cost impr...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Kogi K

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational health in Yugoslavia was once well organized in accordance with WHO declarations and ILO conventions and recommendations. Since the 1990s, the system has been disrupted by destruction of the former Yugoslavia, wars, refugees, changes in the economy, and NATO bombardment. Economic trends, main industries, ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Krstev S,Perunicic B,Vidakovic A

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study, the first environmental cancer study in Azerbaijan, addressed concerns that residents of the industrial city of Sumgayit have an increased cancer burden as a consequence of intense occupational and environmental pollution from industry. Vital statistics data were used to calculate annual crude cancer incid...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Andruchow JE,Soskolne CL,Racioppi F,Senthilselvan A,Makhmudov E,Asadov A

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To our knowledge, reproductive health effects among male leather tannery workers have not been previously investigated. Tannery work involves exposure to chromium, solvents, and other chemicals, which has been associated with adverse pregnancy and fertility outcomes in animals or humans in some studies. This study ret...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Greene LE,Riederer AM,Marcus M,Lkhasuren O

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the agroexport zone of Los Santos Zone in Costa Rica, coffee is harvested by migrant labor. Most migrants are from Panama and Nicaragua. We describe migrants' housing- and service-related health determinants, with analyses of ethnicity, nationality and geography. We used interviews, observation-based assessments, a...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Loría Bolaños R,Partanen T,Berrocal M,Alvárez B,Córdoba L

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With PLAGSALUD support, pesticide illness surveillance has extended to all seven Central American countries, producing 7,000 poisoning reports in 2000, but governments' use of the surveillance data has been limited by inadequacies of data management, interpretation, and reporting and an influential pesticide industry ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Murray D,Wesseling C,Keifer M,Corriols M,Henao S

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lead smelter/refinery workers in the US have had significant exposure to lead and are an important occupational group to study to understand the health effects of chronic lead exposure in adults. Recent research found evidence that studies of lead smelter/refinery workers have been conducted but not publishe...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Sullivan M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The WHO has advocated monitoring adherence to the Food and Agriculture Organization's Code of Conduct to reduce use of highly hazardous pesticides in lower and middle income countries. We re-framed Code articles in terms of farmers' rights and drew on survey data, farmer focus group results, and direct observations of...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Orozco FA,Cole DC,Forbes G,Kroschel J,Wanigaratne S,Arica D

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of different conditions of occupational exposure to organic solvents on subjective sleep quality were studied with and without shiftwork. Laboratory studies showed that four hours of daytime exposure to ethanol (400, 800 ppm) by inhalation led to blood ethanol levels below 0.01 per thousand and had margina...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Kiesswetter E,Seeber A,Golka K,Sietmann B

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incident rates of mining-related accidents and injuries in developing countries exceed those of developed nations. Interventions by international organizations routinely fail to produce appreciable long-term improvement. One major reason is the inability to identify and analyze the underlying factors responsible f...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Miller HB,Sinkala T,Renger RF,Peacock EM,Tabor JA,Burgess JL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the "debate" about the relationship between asbestos exposure from automobile brake work and asbestos-induced cancer has been fueled by studies that have been funded by corporations with billions at stake in tort litigation. The authors explore how asbestos-lined brake manufacturers have corrupted medical lite...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Egilman DS,Billings MA

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global changes in the economies of most developed nations have impacted the way healthcare is organized, even within largely public systems, and the working conditions of healthcare workers. Since the acceleration of globalization in the 1970s, service-sector workers in developed nations have faced high unemployment, ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Ostry AS,Spiegel JM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether workers, describing their own work, and occupational physicians, describing typical workstations, would report the same working conditions, and whether the relationships between health status and working conditions described by these two sources would be similar. An epidemiologic survey was carrie...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Hays M,Saurel-Cubizolles MJ,Bourgine M,Touranchet A,Verge C,Kaminski M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This analysis of data from the Household Injury Survey conducted in Viet Nam in 2004-2005 sought to characterize the patterns of work-related injuries in Viet Nam and to determine whether self-employed and artisanal workers had higher rates of injuries than formally employed workers. The annual incidence rate of work-...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Phung DT,Nguyen HT,Mock C,Keifer M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the development of nanotechnology within numerous scientific disciplines, it is likely that nanoscale products have been and will be used for agricultural, vector, and urban pest control prior to a complete evaluation of exposure and risk. Significant differences may exist between nanotechnology-based pesticides...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Stone D,Harper BJ,Lynch I,Dawson K,Harper SL

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection in immigration employees and compared two of the screening methods. Using a cross-sectional study design, we administered questionnaires regarding demographics, work, medical history, and tuberculosis risk factors to employees at two immigration facilities. P...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： De Perio MA,Niemeier RT,Groenewold MR

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factory surveys were conducted in the second half of work weeks on 360 solvent workers (202 men and 158 women) and 281 controls in China. Monitoring personal exposures showed that ethylbenzene exposure was low (geometric mean 1.8 ppm) and was accompanied by coexposure to toluene (1.5 ppm) and three xylene isomers (6.7...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Inoue O,Seiji K,Kudo S,Jin C,Cai SX,Liu SJ,Watanabe T,Nakatsuka H,Ikeda M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study on workplace injuries and risk reduction practices was part of the Malaysia National Health Morbidity Survey III (NHMS III) conducted in 2006. METHODS:This cross-sectional population-based survey was conducted to determine the incidence of workplaces injuries and assess the magnitude of some i...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Ali R,Shaharudin R,Omar A,Yusoff F

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance data show that pesticide-related illness is an important cause of acute morbidity among migrant farm workers in California. A few categories (organophosphates and carbamates, inorganic compounds, and pyrethroids) account for over half of the cases of acute illness. Skin effects dominate the illnesses, alt...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Das R,Steege A,Baron S,Beckman J,Harrison R

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study examines the possible effect of exposure to aerosols and gases on lung function in a fertilizer plant in Norway. METHODS:Dynamic lung volumes (FVC and FEV1) of 383 workers were measured in 2007 and 2010. During the follow-up period, most workers performed tasks with low exposure levels of acid ae...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Hovland KH,Skogstad M,Bakke B,Skare O,Skyberg K

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the 1990 National Health Interview Survey Health Promotion and Disease Prevention supplement, the authors estimated the 1990 baseline prevalence of breast cancer screening among employed U.S. women aged 50-70 years. Proportions of women screened for breast cancer were calculated by occupational category and demog...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Ballard TJ,Burnett CA,Sieber WK,Halperin WE

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine lymphohematopoietic malignancy incidence rates between populations living near oil-gas fields (two regions) compared with those living in areas free from oil-gas exploitation (one region) in Koprivnica-Krizevci County, Croatia, 803 new cases of lymphohematopoietic malignancies were studied for two time pe...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Gazdek D,Strnad M,Mustajbegovic J,Nemet-Lojan Z

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1983, in the face of mounting evidence of excess leukemia among workers at Shell Oil's Wood River (IL) and Deer Park (TX) petroleum refineries, Shell initiated the Benzene Historical Exposure Study (BHES). Shell's prior research had implicated occupational exposure to benzene as the source of the excess leukemia. T...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Egilman D,Scout,Kol L,Hegg LA,Bohme SR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite tobacco farming involving intensive manual labor, chronic low back pain (CLBP) prevalence and associated factors are unknown among this occupational group. METHODS:This was a cross-sectional study conducted in southern Brazil. A random sample of tobacco farmers was interviewed. Socioeconomic and ind...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Meucci RD,Fassa AG,Faria NM,Fiori NS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional study was conducted in a randomly selected factory producing Portland cement in eastern Saudi Arabia to determine the prevalence of respiratory symptoms and diseases and chest x-ray changes consistent with pneumoconiosis in the employees. A sample of 150 exposed and 355 unexposed employees was select...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Ballal SG,Ahmed HO,Ali BA,Albar AA,Alhasan AY

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treating physicians' and independent medical examiners' (IMEs') opinions were compared to identify differences of opinion and to develop a basis for understanding the differences. Twenty-three patients of an occupational health center (OHC) who had been examined by an IME were studied. OHC and IME opinions regarding d...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Lax MB,Manetti FA,Klein RA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 1991 Gulf War, some Allied troops were potentially exposed to sarin/cyclosarin as the result of the destruction of Iraqi munitions at Khamisiyah. To evaluate the prevalence of past and current symptoms known to be associated with exposure to these chemical warfare agents, the authors conducted a computer-as...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： McCauley LA,Rischitelli G,Lambert WE,Lasarev M,Sticker DL,Spencer PS

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00