Introduction Quantitative job-exposure matrices (JEMs) have been developed to assign exposure using International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)-68 coded job information. For extended ...

OBJECTIVES To compare the relative effects on performance of sleep deprivation and alcohol. METHODS Performance effects were studied in the same subjects over a period of 28 hours of sleep deprivation ...

Department of Occupational Health, Swedish National Institute for Working Life, Solna, Sweden. OBJECTIVES: To review the possible association between occupational exposure to dust and ischaemic heart ...

Correspondence to Veronique D Hauschild, Injury Prevention Program, Army Public Health Center (Provisional), 5158 Blackhawk Rd, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5400, USA; ...

Correspondence to Dr Leah H Schinasi, Occupational and Environmental Health, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; lhs36{at}drexel.edu Objectives High ...

3 Center for Ergonomics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 4 Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (RMCOEH), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, ...

Objective To evaluate the associations between the evolution of household use of cleaning products with the asthma symptom score and its evolution over 8 years. Methods Our study is based on 509 women ...

The management of the mine at Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia decided to enquire into the following questions with regard to men working underground in hot conditions: (a) Which of the various heat ...

Objectives: To examine the relationship between occupational exposures and spontaneous abortion in female veterinarians. Methods: The Health Risks of Australian Veterinarians project (HRAV) was a ...

1 Institute of Hygiene and Applied Physiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Clausiusstr. 25, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland 2 Department of Rheumatology and Institute of Physical Medicine, ...