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.

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1 National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Health and Society, Bilthoven, The Netherlands Correspondence to KI Proper, National Institute for Public Health and the ...

2 Department of Medical Statistics, Faculty of Epidemiology and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Objectives The authors conducted a population-based survey to ...

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 ...

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.

The aim of the study was to evaluate the evidence for an association between hip osteoarthritis (OA) and physical work demands. Systematic searches were made and epidemiological studies on hip OA and ...

Objectives This paper presents detailed analysis of the global and regional burden of chronic respiratory disease arising from occupational airborne exposures, as estimated in the Global Burden of ...

1 Coronel Institute of Occupational Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Unit for Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology & Net Teaching, ...

Return-to-work rates among working-age cancer survivors present a complex challenge, varying by cancer type and individual characteristics. This study aimed to identify prognostic factors influencing ...

Background Hot, desert Gulf countries are host to millions of migrant workers doing outdoor jobs such as construction and hospitality. The Gulf countries apply a summertime ban on midday work to ...

Objectives Compared with silicosis, there has been less research on other respiratory diseases in stone benchtop industry workers. Therefore, we explored respiratory symptoms, airflow obstruction and ...