School-sponsored work programs: a first look at differences in work and injury outcomes of teens enrolled in school-to-work programs compared to other-working teens.

abstract：:The "need for recovery scale" is suggested as an operationalisation for the measurement of (early symptoms of) fatigue at work. Definition of and background on the concept of need for recovery are briefly discussed. Details about scale construction are summarised. Correlations with other relevant measurement scales on...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： van Veldhoven M,Broersen S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effectiveness of a self-management intervention (including an eHealth module), compared with usual care, in employees with chronic non-specific complaints of the arm, neck or shoulder (persisting >3 months). METHODS:Participants were randomised into the self-management group (SG) or usual car...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Hutting N,Staal JB,Engels JA,Heerkens YF,Detaille SI,Nijhuis-van der Sanden MW

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the risk of all cause mortality, cause specific mortality, and incident cancer in meatworkers. METHODS:In a retrospective cohort study, a list of members of a meatworkers union in Australia was matched with the national death and cancer registries. Standardised mortality ratios (SMR) and standardised...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Fritschi L,Fenwick S,Bulsara M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess if improvement of working conditions related to heat stress was associated with improved kidney health outcomes among sugarcane harvest workers in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua, a region heavily affected by the epidemic of chronic kidney disease of non-traditional origin. METHODS:Based on our findings du...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Glaser J,Hansson E,Weiss I,Wesseling C,Jakobsson K,Ekström U,Apelqvist J,Lucas R,Arias Monge E,Peraza S,Hogstedt C,Wegman DH

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although crystalline silica exposure is associated with silicosis, lung cancer, pulmonary tuberculosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), there is less support for an association with autoimmune disease, and renal disease. METHODS:Using data from the US National Occupational Mortality Survei...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Calvert GM,Rice FL,Boiano JM,Sheehy JW,Sanderson WT

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Analyses of secular trends in work-related fatal injury in New Zealand have previously only considered the total working population, potentially hiding trends for important subgroups of workers. This paper examines trends in work-related fatalities in worker subgroups between 2005 and 2014 to indicate wher...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Lilley R,Maclennan B,Davie G,McNoe BM,Horsburgh S,Driscoll TR

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the prevalence of cigarette smoking cessation and examine the association between cessation and various factors among workers in a nationally representative sample of US adults. METHODS:Data were derived from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey. Prevalence rates were calculated for intere...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Yong LC,Luckhaupt SE,Li J,Calvert GM

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex and dynamic physiologic processes underlie the exposure-response relations that occupational and environmental epidemiologists study. Simple summary measures of exposure such as the average, cumulative exposure, or duration of exposure, can be applied suitably in exposure-response analyses in many instances. H...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Kriebel D,Checkoway H,Pearce N

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the carcinogenicity of styrene by reanalysing data from a previous international cohort study of workers in the reinforced plastics industry. METHODS:Mortality from cancers of prior interest was analysed with more detailed consideration of exposure-response relations and an updated classificat...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Loomis D,Guha N,Kogevinas M,Fontana V,Gennaro V,Kolstad HA,McElvenny DM,Sallmén M,Saracci R

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To verify in vivo whether lung cinescintigraphy confirms the effect of asbestos on the patency of the smallest airways and on the efficiency of mucociliary clearance in asbestos cement workers. METHODS:39 male subjects were examined: 30 asbestos cement workers and nine workers never exposed to occupational ...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Di Lorenzo L,Mele M,Pegorari MM,Fratello A,Zocchetti C,Capozzi D

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natural rubber latex allergy can cause skin and respiratory symptoms The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and incidence of latex related symptoms and sensitisation among a large group of healthcare workers in Trieste hospitals, followed for three years before and after the introduction of pow...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Filon FL,Radman G

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Leukaemia is the most common cancer in children, but its aetiology is still poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that traffic-related air pollution is associated with paediatric leukaemia because of chronic exposure to several potential carcinogens. METHODS:The Italian SETIL study (Study on the aetio...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Badaloni C,Ranucci A,Cesaroni G,Zanini G,Vienneau D,Al-Aidrous F,De Hoogh K,Magnani C,Forastiere F,SETIL Study Group.

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the possible interaction between occupational risk factors and genotype for glutathione S-transferases M1 and T1 (GSTM1 and GSTT1) in renal cell cancer (RCC). METHODS:One hundred patients with RCC and 200 outpatient controls were enrolled at Parma University Hospital. The polymorphisms of glutathio...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Buzio L,De Palma G,Mozzoni P,Tondel M,Buzio C,Franchini I,Axelson O,Mutti A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Dental instruments such as the right angle or straight handpiece, air turbine, and ultrasonic scaler have the ability to produce dental aerosols containing water, saliva, microorganisms, blood, tooth particles, lubricating oil, and restorative materials. The purpose of this study was to find out whether pers...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Allsopp J,Basu MK,Browne RM,Burge PS,Matthews JB

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate further whether inorganic lead is a carcinogen among adults, or associated with increased blood pressure and kidney damage, via a large mortality study. METHODS:We conducted internal analyses via Cox regression of mortality in three cohorts of lead-exposed workers with blood lead (BL) data (U...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Steenland K,Barry V,Anttila A,Sallmén M,McElvenny D,Todd AC,Straif K

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This systematic review was conducted to help clarify the effect of lifting at work on pregnancy outcome, by focusing on specific exposure categories. A search in Medline and Embase identified 51 articles reporting association of spontaneous abortion (SA), preterm delivery (PTD) or small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infan...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Croteau A

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate the mortality experience of a cohort of employees in the UK silica sand industry exposed to respirable crystalline silica (RCS). METHODS:A retrospective cohort mortality study followed all workers to 2001 with at least one year's employment at one of seven UK silica sand producing quarries between 195...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Brown TP,Rushton L

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Job exposure matrices (JEMs) can be constructed from expert-rated assessments, direct measurement and self-reports. This paper describes the construction of a general population JEM based on self-reported physical exposures, its ability to create homogeneous exposure groups (HEG) and the use of different exp...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Evanoff BA,Yung M,Buckner-Petty S,Andersen JH,Roquelaure Y,Descatha A,Dale AM

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex ratios in the offspring of those affected by dioxins or dioxin-like compounds have been reported from Seveso, Italy and Yucheng, Taiwan. The sex ratio of live births in Yusho, Japan after a similar accidental massive exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in 1968 are...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Yoshimura T,Kaneko S,Hayabuchi H

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:More than 400,000 workers annually receive a measurable radiation dose and may be at increased risk of radiation-induced leukaemia. It is unclear whether leukaemia risk is elevated with protracted, low-dose exposure. OBJECTIVE:We conducted a meta-analysis examining the relationship between protracted low-dose ...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Daniels RD,Schubauer-Berigan MK

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an epidemiological study rat urinary aeroallergen (RUA) and total dust concentrations were measured at three research establishments. Personal RUA measurements in nine exposure groups over a workshift showed highest exposure for animal technicians (geometric mean (GM) = 32.4 micrograms/m3) and lowest for wo...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Nieuwenhuijsen MJ,Gordon S,Tee RD,Venables KM,McDonald JC,Newman Taylor AJ

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Ammonium perfluorooctanoate (APFO) is a biopersistent surfactant used in the manufacture of several types of fluoropolymers. Based on previous findings of increased serum lipid levels associated with exposure to APFO, we evaluated ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality in a cohort of occupationally exposed ...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Sakr CJ,Symons JM,Kreckmann KH,Leonard RC

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Controversy still exists about the breast carcinogenic properties in humans of environmental xenoestrogens (organochlorines), justifying new investigations. AIMS:To compare the blood levels of total dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) in samples collected at the time of breast ...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Charlier C,Albert A,Herman P,Hamoir E,Gaspard U,Meurisse M,Plomteux G

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To update mortality for 34 560 employees from diverse operating segments of a Canadian petroleum company; and to investigate potential relations with occupational factors. METHODS:Employees from 1964-83 were linked to the Canadian mortality data base to provide 11 years additional follow up. There were 6760...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Lewis RJ,Schnatter AR,Katz AM,Thompson FS,Murray N,Jorgensen G,Thériault G

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the frequency, circumstances, and causes of occupational accidents aboard merchant ships in international trade, and to identify risk factors for the occurrence of occupational accidents as well as dangerous working situations where possible preventive measures may be initiated. METHODS:The s...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Hansen HL,Nielsen D,Frydenberg M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Trichloroethylene (TCE) -induced hypersensitivity syndrome (TIHS) is a potentially life-threatening disease. Several genetic susceptibility biomarkers have been found to be associated with TIHS, and this systematic prospective study has been conducted to evaluate the utility of these genetic susceptibility b...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Dai Y,Zhou W,Jia Q,Dong H,Niu Y,He J,Bin P,Yi J,Xiang Y,Duan H,Huang H,Sha Y,Shen M,Ye M,Huang X,Zheng Y

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of the study was to determine whether self-reported occupational exposure to cleaning/disinfecting agents in hospital workers is accurate, in comparison to expert assessment, taken to be the gold standard. METHODS:In the Epidemiological Study of the Genetics and Environment of Asthma (EGEA), partici...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Donnay C,Denis MA,Magis R,Fevotte J,Massin N,Dumas O,Pin I,Choudat D,Kauffmann F,Le Moual N

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the effects of chronic exposure to lead on the peripheral nervous system in lead workers. METHODS:Nerve conduction velocity and electromyographic studies were performed on 31 lead workers of a battery recycling factory and 31 sex and age matched controls. 25 cases with mild distal extensor weakn...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Yeh JH,Chang YC,Wang JD

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the occurrence of work related respiratory symptoms and to assess the effect of atopy in a group of trainee bakers. METHODS:A prospective study of work related respiratory symptoms among 125 trainee bakers who were investigated with a questionnaire plus skin prick test with wheat flour and al...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： De Zotti R,Bovenzi M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the efficacy of a participatory ergonomics intervention in preventing musculoskeletal disorders among kitchen workers. Participatory ergonomics is commonly recommended to reduce musculoskeletal disorders, but evidence for its effectiveness is sparse. METHODS:A cluster randomised controlled trial ...

journal_title：Occupational and environmental medicine

authors： Haukka E,Leino-Arjas P,Viikari-Juntura E,Takala EP,Malmivaara A,Hopsu L,Mutanen P,Ketola R,Virtanen T,Pehkonen I,Holtari-Leino M,Nykänen J,Stenholm S,Nykyri E,Riihimäki H

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00