s for each year from 1990 to 2002. To measure attention to race discrimination, I include a similar count of the number of articles in the ABI Inform database that include “race or racial” and “discrimination, bias, or harassment” in their titles or abstracts for each year.10 These are annual measures that gauge attention to sex and race discrimination in the business literature. I restrict med...

The potential impacts of climate change (CC) on Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) have been studied a little in tropical countries, while they received no attention in northern industrialized countries with a temperate climate. This work aimed to establish an overview of the potential links between CC and OHS in those countries and to determine research priorities for Quebec, Canada. A narra...

Occupation could affect the distribution of smoking status of workers, and the success of smoking cessation among workers depends partly on worksite conditions. Blue collar workers have been identified as a high-risk group for smoking. The aim of the present study was to examine trends in smoking rates among urban civil servants in Japan according to occupational categories. Subjects were urban...

Executive Summary The NMDOH developed conclusions and recommendations about the potential association of pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease (PD) based on the literature assessed. Two main categories were analyzed: studies without genetic interactions and studies with genetic interactions. Within these two categories, the following categories of pesticides were identified: 1) general, 2)...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the association between failed smoking cessation and occupation by age stratification among Korean males and provide quantitative evidence of factors associated with failed smoking cessation. The study comprised 3,127 male workers who had attempted smoking cessation during their life time. Data were obtained from the Korea National Health and Nutriti...

BACKGROUND Trends in workplace homicide rates are compared to the trends in U.S. homicides from 1993 to 2002, inclusively. The homogeneity of workplace homicide rates by victim demographics, circumstances, and types of events are also addressed. METHODS Using publicly available data from several sources, Poisson models are used to statistically compare the trends of workplace homicide rates v...

OBJECTIVES A prediction model of performance in physical disabilities fieldwork was generated with grades received in the occupational therapy curriculum and in prerequisite courses. METHOD Grades included those from functional anatomy, neuroanatomy, physical disabilities lecture, physical disabilities clinic, and prerequisite anatomy and physiology courses. Sampling was done collectively ove...

Background: There are few research studies evaluating the significance of low back pain (LBP) in Iran, even though the majority of locally published surveys are written in the Persian language. In the present review study, we aimed at appraising published articles related to the burden of LBP and its divergence among different jobs.Methods: A comprehensive search was conducted in all accessible...

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