Steve Kleeberger and Matt Longnecker step up to serve with me as interim deputy editors in the absence of a full-time permanent editor. Steve and Matt have given generously of their time, expertise, and energy in helping to maintain EHP ’s scientific quality during a time of transition. Given EHP ’s broad scope of coverage, however, we felt the need to likewise broaden the scope of our science ...

Abstract Focus of Presentation The process and results popularizing Occupational Health Epidemiology amongst practitioners in India during the covid-19 Pandemic through Webinars Findings 25 webinars average duration 90 minutes, with contents relating to Covid-19 India, generated immense interest Practitioners reference innovative methods data collection, analysis data, dissemination integration...

This study is the first that longitudinally examined change in occupational self-efficacy (OSE) through individual and shared participation in occupational stress management courses (SMC). Applying the framework of social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1986, Social foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall), we assumed that participation in SM...

BACKGROUND In many European countries, Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) providers report their activities and results annually. Ideally, this report should offer an overview of their activities and of the outcome regarding occupational health and safety. To establish a set of epidemiological and performance indicators for electronic reporting of data that can be used for OHS surveillance an...

Rodney Ehrlich trained in economics at UCT and Oxford before switching to Medicine which he completed at UCT in 1981. He subsequently worked for the National Centre for Occupational Health in Johannesburg where his interest in lung disease in miners was kindled. After training in occupational medicine and epidemiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, he qualified as a speciali...

In occupational epidemiology, group-based exposure assessment entails estimating the average exposure level in a group of workers and assigning the average to all members of the group. The assigned exposure values can be used in epidemiological analyses and have been shown to produce virtually unbiased relative-risk estimates in many situations. Although the group-based exposure assessment cont...

Neurobehavioral testing provides for noninvasive assessment of the functional integrity of the nervous system. Neurobehavioral tests have been used as quantitative outcome measures in a number of epidemiologic investigations of the potential effects on the nervous system from exposure to organic solvents, heavy metals, and pesticides. Because of the functional complexity of the nervous system, ...