Objectives Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Exposure to occupational hazards is an important preventable risk factor but the ...

1 Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Science, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China 2 Department of Clinical Laboratory, 3rd Hospital Affiliated to Peking ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 2 National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic ...

Aim: To determine the possible influence of high physical load in the workplace on the physical fitness of employees. Methods: The subjects (494 men) were tested by means of Baecke’s questionnaire for ...

The development of methods for the assessment of the thermal environment is traced, and the reasons for the devising of special indices of thermal stress are discussed. The more important of the ...

Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA Correspondence to Dr Kristin ...

Correspondence to Prof. Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia; nirmala.bhoopathy{at}ummc.edu.my ...

Background The health impacts of temperatures are gaining attention in Australia and worldwide. While a number of studies have investigated the association of temperatures with the risk of ...

Correspondence to Dr Kristan J Aronson, Division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology, Cancer Research Institute, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6 , Canada; aronson{at}queensu.ca Objectives The ...

3 National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Utrecht, The Netherlands 5 Public Health and Primary Care Directorate, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK ...

4 The Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, 0027 Oslo, Norway Correspondence to: Dr B Randem Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Rikshospitalet ...

Nerve conduction tests were performed on the right ulnar nerve of factory workers exposed to elemental mercury vapour. Time integrated urine mercury indices were used to measure the degree of exposure ...