Conclusions This study suggests that a decrease in positive leadership behaviours has a hazardous effect on workers’ level of ...

Objective We assessed upper-aero digestive tract disorders in World Trade Center (WTC) patients seen in the Otolaryngology – ...

Objectives Despite reducing exposures to wood dust, woodworkers remain at increased risk of asthma. There have been no recent studies of wood dust exposure, respiratory symptoms or asthma in British ...

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Chest X-ray (CXR) is widely used for silicosis diagnosis, despite concerns regarding sensitivity. We investigated the diagnostic accuracy of CXR for silicosis screening compared with CT, ...

Background Despite the fact that labour market flexibility has resulted in an expansion of precarious employment in industrialised countries, to date there is limited empirical evidence concerning its ...

Objectives Long-term night work has been suggested as a risk factor for breast cancer; however, additional studies with more comprehensive methods of exposure assessment to capture the diversity of ...

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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 ...

3 National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, PO Box 220, FIN-00520 Helsinki, Finland Correspondence to: Dr M Kivimäki Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 9, ...

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 ...

1 Regional Injury Prevention Research Center, Center for Violence Prevention and Control, and Occupational Injury Prevention Research Training Program, Division of Environmental and Occupational ...