Occupational Histoplasmosis: Epidemiology and Prevention Measures

Occupational injury in the United Arab Emirates: epidemiology and prevention.

BACKGROUND The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is developing rapidly, with many foreign construction, farm and industrial workers. AIMS To assess the epidemiology of occupational injury hospitalizations using a trauma registry. METHODS Surgical admissions from March 2003 to April 2005 were recorded in the registry at the main trauma hospital in Al Ain city (population 348,000). Prevention-relate...

Occupational cancer in France: epidemiology, toxicology, prevention, and compensation.

This article is a description of the current situation in France with regard to occupational cancer: research, prevention, and occupation. Toxicologic experiments are carried out using (italic)in vitro(/italic) and (italic)in vivo(/italic) tests, particularly using transgenic mice. Several epidemiologic studies have been conducted over the last decades: population-based case-control studies; mo...

Meta-analysis and occupational epidemiology.

Meta-analysis is increasingly appearing in the epidemiologic literature. Although originally performed in the context of experimental or randomized controlled study designs and with regard to problems that are amenable to these designs, the method has also been applied to studies in observational epidemiologic settings. This movement has generated considerable debate about the validity of meta-...

Occupational exposure, epidemiology and compensation.

The data summarized in this section are taken mainly from the 2000 Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), and generally refer to occupational exposures assessed to have been experienced during the earlyand mid-1990s [1]. Occupational exposures in the United Kingdom from 1998 to 2003 have been reviewed recently by the Radiation Protection ...

Occupational Epidemiology: Thought and Action