Abuse of epidemiology: automobile manufacturers manufacture a defense to asbestos liability.

abstract：:A meta-analysis of short-term effects of air pollution on health in eight Italian cities from 1990 to 1999 is presented. Death certificates and hospital admission data as well as daily concentrations of pollutants were collected. The same generalized linear model adjusted for age, day of the week, holidays, influenza ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Biggeri A,Baccini M,Bellini P,Terracini B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 44-year-old patient died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) after nine years of heavy exposure to cadmium (Cd) in a nickel cadmium (Ni-Cd) battery factory. Two years after starting work he and co-workers had experienced pruritus, loss of smell, nasal congestion, nosebleeds, cough, shortness of breath, severe h...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Bar-Sela S,Reingold S,Richter ED

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：:The objective of the study was to estimate the incidences of physician-diagnosed cases of work-related asthma (WRA) in Michigan and the entire United States. The statewide surveillance system for WRA in Michigan receives reports primarily from three sources: physicians, hospital discharge data, and worker's compensati...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Henneberger PK,Kreiss K,Rosenman KD,Reilly MJ,Chang YF,Geidenberger CA

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：: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：:Because the widespread use of gloves by health care workers has induced an increase of both irritant and type I or type IV allergic glove-related diseases, the Italian Society of Preventive Medicine for Health Care Workers set up a working group to collect information about glove composition and to standardize procedu...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Alessio L,Baruffini A,Biscaldi G,Cirla AM,Cortona G,Crippa M,Franco G,Marcer G,Moscato G,Toffoletto F

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:Respiratory and allergic symptoms were evaluated in 66 Iranian carpet weavers and 66 controls with similar age and gender characteristics using a questionnaire including questions on work-related respiratory symptoms in the past year, allergies, smoking habits, and work exposure duration. A total of 28 carpet weavers ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Boskabady MH,Karimiani EG,Vostacolaei HA

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:In 2003, the university-based Program on Work and Health in Central America, SALTRA, was launched to build national and regional capacities in occupational safety and health with the goal of preventing and reducing poverty in Central America. SALTRA has implemented 20 projects including action projects in priority sec...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Wesseling C,Aragón A,Elgstrand K,Flores R,Hogstedt C,Partanen T

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragrance ingredients are commonly added to many personal care products to provide a pleasant scent, including those intended for babies. While fragrance chemicals have a long history of safe use, at sufficiently high concentrations some may act as respiratory irritants or sensitizers. Little data have been reported o...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Zhou J,Tierney NK,McCarthy TJ,Black KG,Hernandez M,Weisel CP

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Legislators in the Canadian province of Alberta have successfully resisted pressure to increase state injury-prevention efforts. OBJECTIVES:This study seeks to identify the narratives used by legislators to manage political pressure for increased injury-prevention efforts. METHODS:Narrative analysis of leg...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Barnetson B

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：: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：:In a prospective study of the association between self-reported diabetes mellitus and sick leave from work, 21,149 men and women, aged 35-59 years, participated. Prevalence of diabetes was obtained by questionnaire. Sick leave was prospectively obtained from departments of human resources in the year after the baselin...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： De Backer G,Leynen F,De Bacquer D,Clays E,Moreau M,Kornitzer M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the number and distribution of exposures among workers exposed to silica dust in Vietnam, a cross-sectional study was conducted of the provincial Preventive Medicine Centers (PMCs) of 61 provinces, and data were collected from medical centers (MCs) of the Ministries of Construction, Industry, and Transpor...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Lan TN,Son PH,Trung le V,Tu NT,Keifer M,Barnhart S

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether the agricultural use of untreated wastewater (i.e. crop irrigation) was associated with elevated blood lead levels in a farming population in the Mezquital Valley and which risk factors, other than exposure to untreated wastewater, were associated with elevated blood lead levels, lead levels wer...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Cifuentes E,Villanueva J,Sanin LH

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-five farmers reported on pesticide use and the signs and symptoms of acute pesticide poisoning when using two different plant protection strategies: in 2003 using chemical controls and in 2004 using an approach to Integrated Pest Management (IPM) based on an ecological analysis of the field conditions. Exposure ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Mancini F,Jiggins JL,O'Malley M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexavalent chromium particles are generated in the welding of stainless steel. A cohort consisting of 233 welders working on stainless steel and exposed to high levels of chromium was selected. According to an earlier survey, the hexavalent chromium exposures of such welders are often above 20 µg/m(3). Another cohort ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Milatou-Smith R,Gustavsson A,Sjögren B

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a global need for trained researchers who can address the increasing burden of illness and injury and prepare future generations of researchers. Developing countries have a special need for practical, action-oriented interventions to address workplace problems, based on identification of needs and priorities,...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Felknor SA,Delclos GL,Gimeno D,Wesseling I,Monge P,Chavez J,Quintana L,Schulze LJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a group of persistent organic pollutants with the ability to cause adverse impacts on human health and the environment. This study describes the indiscriminate use of PCB-contaminated transformer oil as a coolant in informal welding shops in Kalutara, Sri Lanka. Sixty-three welder...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Lankatilake K,Samaranayake D,Piyathunga K

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：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：: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：:Atrazine, an herbicide used on most of the US corn (maize) crop, is the subject of ongoing controversy, with increasing documentation of its potentially harmful health and environmental impacts. Supporters of atrazine often claim that it is of great value to farmers; most recently, Syngenta, the producer of atrazine, ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Ackerman F,Whited M,Knight P

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:Brick manufacturing constitutes an important industrial sector in Egypt with considerable exposure to silica. OBJECTIVES:We aimed for evaluating hepatic functions in silica-exposed workers in the clay brick industry, and the possible role of matrix remodeling and immunological factors. METHODS:A case-contr...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Zawilla N,Taha F,Ibrahim Y

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sea lampreys are parasitic fish found in lakes of the United States and Canada. Sea lamprey is controlled through manual application of the pesticides 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) and Bayluscide(TM) into streams and tributaries. 3-Trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol may cause irritation and central nervou...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Ceballos DM,Beaucham CC,Kurtz K,Musolin K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00