Current Perspectives on Occupational Cancer Risks.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Between 1992 and 2010 in the Costa Rican Caribbean, a social movement coalition called Foro Emaús sought to change people's view on problems of high pesticide use in banana production. OBJECTIVE:To understand the formation and membership of Foro Emaús, its success period, and its decline. METHODS:Semi-stru...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Barraza D,Jansen K,van Wendel de Joode B,Wesseling C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies suggest strong underreporting of occupational diseases in industrialized countries. We studied physician-related barriers to reporting of occupational sciatica (with herniated disk). We conducted a telephone survey of 391 general practitioners (GPs) and 96 rheumatologists in southeastern France with a standard...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Verger P,Viau A,Arnaud S,Cabut S,Saliba ML,Iarmarcovai G,Souville M

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:A recent interpretation of the pathogenetic role of asbestos fiber size in the development of mesothelioma and in the possibility of mesothelioma prevention needs clarification. This point of view is based on a biased interpretation of the literature. Epidemiologic, experimental, and molecular evidence suggests that t...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Tomatis L,Cantoni S,Carnevale F,Merler E,Mollo F,Ricci P,Silvestri S,Vineis P,Terracini B

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Health effects of occupational exposures are frequently evaluated by comparing the mortality of a whole cohort of workers with that of the general population. This study design may be affected by two major biases: a dilution effect (DE), due to the inclusion of unexposed subjects in the study cohort, and a comparison ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Parodi S,Gennaro V,Ceppi M,Cocco P

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：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：: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：:Blood lead levels were measured in 538 girls aged 6 to 12 years who attended primary public schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Of the 538 screened children, 24.4% had blood lead levels > or =10 microg/dL, the Centers for Disease Control's level of concern. Variation in the blood lead levels was investigated with respect...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Al-Saleh I,Nester M,DeVol E,Shinwari N,Al-Shahria S

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：:A project brought together international footwear manufacturers, labor rights groups, local contract factories, and occupational health professionals to strengthen factory health and safety programs in southern China. Steps involved in the two-year project, including needs assessment, interviews and focus groups with ...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Szudy B,O'Rourke D,Brown GD

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pesticide exposures of women in developing countries are aggravated by economic policy changes associated with structural adjustment programs and globalization. Women in these countries, particularly in the agricultural sector, are increasingly exposed. Since they are concentrated in the most marginal positions in the...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： London L,de GS,Wesseling C,Kisting S,Rother HA,Mergler D

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：: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 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：: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：:Prevalence of hand dermatitis was investigated in 60 U.K. hairdressing salons. Exposure variables and individual characteristics were examined for associations with prevalence. 38.6% of respondents reported prevalent hand dermatitis and 72.7% of prevalent cases reported interdigital symptoms. Trainee hairdressers repo...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Perkins JB,Farrow A

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The European Union's 2006 Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) legislation represents a new wave in regulating chemicals and has set far-reaching goals for protecting and enhancing public health, the environment, and markets. Despite substantial public debate during the develop...

journal_title：International journal of occupational and environmental health

authors： Cohen AK

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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：: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