Objectives Firefighters face a range of hazards, including strenuous tasks in high-temperature environments and exposure to ...

Objectives There is a lack of knowledge about whether occupational exposures increase the risk of emphysema, especially in ...

Background: The nested case-control design can be a very efficient approach to an epidemiological investigation. In order to obtain unbiased estimates of relative risk, controls should be selected by ...

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Academic Medical Center, Coronel Institute of Occupational Health, Research Center for Insurance Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr Patricia Dekkers-Sánchez, Academic ...

Introduction The epidemiological surveillance of mesothelioma incidence is a crucial key for investigating the occupational and environmental sources of asbestos exposure. The median age at diagnosis ...

2 Department of Psychiatry, Central Clinical School, Brain & Mind Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Dr Gwenllian Wynne-Jones, ...

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 ...

The recognition of occupational carcinogens is important for primary prevention, compensation and surveillance of exposed workers, as well as identifying causes of cancer in the general population.

Objectives Radon is a ubiquitous occupational and environmental lung carcinogen. We aim to quantify the association between radon progeny and lung cancer mortality in the largest and most up-to-date ...

This paper systematically reviews the scientific literature on the effects of individual and work-related factors on the Work Ability Index (WAI) Studies on work ability published from 1985 to 2006 ...