Identifying antecedent conditions responsible for the high rate of mining injuries in Zambia.

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：:Information about asbestos issues at the national level was compiled for ten Asian countries (China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam) regarding 1) bans and consumption levels; 2) occupational exposure limits (OELs) and medical follow-up schemes; and 3) statistic...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Takahashi K,Karjalainen A

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deregulatory nature of trade rules frequently brings them into conflict with the precautionary principle. These rules dominate debate over the content and legal status of the precautionary principle at the international level. The World Trade Organization (WTO), because of its power in settling disputes, is a key ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Saladin C

更新日期：2000-10-01 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 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：:The Fogarty-supported International Training Program of the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (SWCOEH) at the University of Texas School of Public Health was initiated in 1995, with its activities focused primarily on Latin America. As this program has matured, its participants have been conce...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Delclos GL,Felknor SA,Morandi MT,Schulze LJ,Tovar LS,Yanes L

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on a predetermined list of job-related diseases, INAIL makes compensation decisions in cases of work-related diseases in Italy. Its functioning is somewhat hampered by imprecision in the disease classification and infrequency of updating the list, as well as rapid turnover of workers in some categories of jobs. ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Bracci C,Norcia G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the risk of leukemia for workers exposed to 1 ppm of benzene for 40 years is estimated to be 70% greater than the risk for unexposed persons, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) recommend that the allowable ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Kalnas J,Teitelbaum DT

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：: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：:The study objective was to identify personal and work-related risk factors associated with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in electronics assembly, operators relative to clerical workers in the same factory. Of 422 workers in a television assembly factory located in Ismailia, Suez Canal Area, Egypt, 198 (46.9%) participa...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Abbas MF,Faris RH,Harber PI,Mishriky AM,El-Shahaly HA,Waheeb YH,Kraus JF

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Many nations, including those in developing countries, whose workers are the most susceptible to exploitation, have in place statutes and regulations to protect the rights to life, health, and livelihoods of their people. Some of these efforts to protect human rights are detailed, and specific instances in which the p...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Dinham B,Malik S

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：: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：:The World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund can assist in the implementation of ILO Conventions relating to occupational safety and health in developing countries. Most countries that seek to trade globally receive permission to do so from the WTO. If the WTO required member count...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： LaDou J

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There has been a strong increase in the international movement of workers during the last few decades. As Thailand's economy has rapidly developed during the past 20 years, it has attracted growing numbers of laborers from the bordering countries of Myanmar, Lao PDR, and Cambodia. Numbers of migrant workers ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Thetkathuek A,Jaidee W

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the temporal trends of age-specific pneumoconiosis mortality from coal worker's pneumoconiosis (CWP), asbestosis, and silicosis in the United States in 1985-1996. Mortality data were derived from the National Center for Health Statistics multiple causes of death files for the period. Age-specific ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Bang KM,Althouse RB,Kim JH,Game SR

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupations of two geographically distinct populations of patients with upper limb pain were examined. Relative risks for being in an occupation were calculated for subjects with epicondylitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and pain syndromes in one population and nonspecific occupational overuse syndrome (OOS) in the other...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Dryson EW,Walls CB

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：: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：: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：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：: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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Factors that influence exposure to silver particles from the use of textiles are not well understood. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of product treatment and physiological factors on silver release from two textiles. METHODS:Atomic and absorbance spectroscopy, electron micro...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Stefaniak AB,Duling MG,Lawrence RB,Thomas TA,LeBouf RF,Wade EE,Virji MA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional study was conducted on a random sample of 1,200 health care professionals in Marseille, France, in order to assess the prevalences of depression and burnout, and to compare these two entities. Depression was assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale (CES-D), and burnout by the...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Martin F,Poyen D,Bouderlique E,Gouvernet J,Rivet B,Disdier P,Martinez O,Scotto JC

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated factors associated with smoking restrictions in the workplace and at home in order to better understand the effects of workplace smoking restrictions. Data from the 2006 Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System were analyzed. Multiple logistic regression was used to determine independent risk f...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Cook DM,Lee WL,Yang W

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：: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：:Several studies were designed and conducted to evaluate amphibole asbestos exposures in homes containing Zonolite (expanded vermiculite) attic insulation (ZAI). A range of tasks selected for evaluation included cleaning, working around, moving, and removal of ZAI in attics and living spaces. The fieldwork for these st...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Ewing WM,Hays SM,Hatfield R,Longo WE,Millette JR

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00