Questionnaires are frequently used in the exposure assessment of occupational and environmental epidemiological studies. Questionnaires may be the method of choice for assessing exposure because no ...

Objectives: Sino-nasal cancer has been consistently associated with exposure to wood dust, leather dust, nickel and chromium compounds; for other occupational hazards, the findings are somewhat mixed.

Aims: To analyse the impact of overtime and extended working hours on the risk of occupational injuries and illnesses among a nationally representative sample of working adults from the United States.

1 Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia 2 National Institute ...

Correspondence to Dr Kyle Steenland, Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30307, USA; nsteenl{at}sph.emory.edu Objectives Determine ...

Objectives Person-related work requires workers to interact with individuals not employed at the workplace, such as clients and patients, and can cause emotional labour and conflict. These stressors ...

Objective To conduct meta-analyses of occupational asbestos exposure and oesophageal, stomach and colorectal cancer risk, including a critical exposure assessment approach. Methods The search strategy ...

Objectives At the end of the 1990s, as required by European Directive 92/57/EEC, two laws were enacted in Italy which laid down safety and health requirements for construction sites: Decree 494/96 and ...

Objective To estimate the prospective association between the exposure to three types of gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) and psychotropic medication. Methods Information on three measures ...

Occupational lung cancers represent a major health burden due to their increasing prevalence and poor long-term outcomes. While wood dust is a confirmed human carcinogen, its association with lung ...

Correspondence to Dr. Yiyi Xu, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund 22100, Sweden; yiyi.xu{at}med.lu.se Background Controversy exists as to ...

Objective: There is limited information on the public health impact of wildfires. The relationship of cardiorespiratory hospital admissions (n = 40 856) to wildfire-related particulate matter (PM 2.5) ...