Longitudinal lung function decline among workers in a nitrate fertilizer production plant.

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：:Sewage operatives at five sewage treatment plants (n = 59) and controls not exposed to sewage (n = 55) were examined to determine work-related symptoms and inflammatory responses. Symptoms were elicited using a questionnaire, and spirometry was performed. Inflammatory markers were determined in blood and nasal lavage....

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Thorn J,Beijer L

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：: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：:The authors visited the State of West Bengal, India, in August 1996, as consultants to the World Health Organization (WHO). The general mandate of the mission was to formulate recommendations to the Government of India regarding its efforts to assist the Government of West Bengal in remedying health problems arising f...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Subramanian KS,Kosnett MJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:Safety climate, violence prevention climate, and civility climate were independently developed and linked to domain-specific workplace hazards, although all three were designed to promote the physical and psychological safety of workers. PURPOSE:To test domain specificity between conceptually related workpl...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Gazica MW,Spector PE

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：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：: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：:A survey of children from a community adjacent to an auto-battery-recycling smelter in Haina, the Dominican Republic, revealed alarming elevations of blood lead (B-Pb) and erythrocyte protoporphyrin (EP-ZnPP) compared with controls. The authors recommend follow-up confirmation and treatment of severely lead-poisoned c...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Kaul B,Mukerjee H

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many countries have maternity protection laws for women who need job modification or medical leave during pregnancy. This approach will prevent birth defects only if maternal job changes can be made before the critical period of organogenesis, which begins at three weeks' gestation. The authors studied the gestational...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Von Busch TA,Frazier LM,Sigler SJ,Molgaard CA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating the burden of occupational injury in developing countries might provide support for strengthening injury prevention during industrialization. A cross-sectional survey was administered to all households in the Xuân Tiên Commune in Vietnam to collect information on the characteristics of work and injuries in ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Marucci-Wellman H,Leamon TB,Binh TT,Diep NB,Wegman DH,Kriebel D

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:This study explored the association between the two job-stress models, job-strain and effort-reward imbalance, and mental health outcomes in a working population exposed to major organizational changes. The cross-sectional study was based on 680 subjects, 504 men and 176 women. Psychosocial factors at work included: p...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Niedhammer I,Chastang JF,David S,Barouhiel L,Barrandon G

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

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 evaluate the health impact of insecticides on Palestinian farm workers in the Gaza Strip, the study assessed biomarkers in farm workers who used organophosphorus insecticides. Serum cholinesterase and complete blood count were determined before and after spraying of organophosphorus insecticides. Burning sensations...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Abu Mourad T

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：: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：:In 1997, Argentina gave priority to asbestos in its National Plan for the Sound Management of Chemicals, and it was the subject of a Technical Task Force on Occupational Cancer. After five years of public hearings in which government, workers, industry advocates, environmentalists, clinicians, scientists, and consumer...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Rodriguez EJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：: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:Exposure to metal working fluids (MWF) is common in machining processes worldwide and may lead to diseases of the skin and the respiratory tract. OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to investigate exposure and diseases due to MWF in Switzerland between 2004 and 2013. METHODS:We performed descriptive statist...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Koller MF,Pletscher C,Scholz SM,Schneuwly P

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asbestos was used in spray applied textured ceilings from 1945 to at least 1980. Exposure to asbestos and the probability of developing lung disease is high in individuals who lived with these types of ceilings in their home. Asbestos exposure and frequency of disease is even higher in an apartment suffering...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Dahlgren JG,Talbott PJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00