The proportion of cancer attributable to occupational exposures

proportion of mortality attributable to tobacco worldwide

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Estimating the global burden of low back pain attributable to combined occupational exposures.

BACKGROUND There is little information about the global burden of non-traumatic low back pain (LBP) attributable to the effects of physical and psychosocial occupational stressors. METHODS Based on a review of the epidemiological evidence, occupation-specific relative risks were used to compute attributable proportions by age, gender, and geographical sub-region for the economically active po...

Proportion of Mortality Attributable to Tobacco Worldwide

1. Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2. Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran 3. Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Minimally Invasive Surgery Re...

Bladder cancer and occupational exposures.

OBJECTIVES A hospital-based case-referent study was carried out in Lyon with the purpose of generating hypotheses about the role of occupational exposures to 320 compounds in bladder carcinogenesis. METHODS Job histories were obtained by questionnaire for 116 cases and 232 reference patients with diseases other than cancer (one referent from the same hospital ward and one from another ward of...

Quantifying The Proportion Of Cases Attributable To An Exposure