Marléne Isaksson1, Annica Inerot2, Carola Lidén3,4, Magnus Lindberg5, Mihaly Matura3,4, Halvor Möller1, Berndt Stenberg6 and Magnus Bruze1 1Department of Occupational and Environmental Dermatology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö SE-205 02, Sweden, 2Department of Dermatology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg SE-413 45, Sweden, 3 Institute of Environmental Medicine, ...

background: occupational diseases are worldwide. some dentists believe that they are at a higher risk for development of some musculoskeletal disorders for the postures they should have during work. objective: to determine the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain and their associated occupational factors among dentists from shiraz, southern iran. methods: in a cross-sectional study, 90 dentists o...

Occupational epidemiology has its roots in classical medicine. However, it became a quantitative discipline only in the 20th century, through the pioneering work of individuals such as Case, Lloyd, and Selikoff and organizations such as the Division of Occupational Health of the U.S. Public Health Service. Studies of chemical dye workers, bituminous coal miners, smelting workers, and uranium mi...

1 Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 2 Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 3 Division of General Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY. 4 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 5 Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Universit...

Affiliations: Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR_S 1158 ‘‘Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique’’, Paris, INSERM, UMR_S 1158 ‘‘Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique’’, Paris, and AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, Service de Pneumologie et Réanimation Médicale (Département ‘‘R3S’’), Paris, France. Centre for Clinical Epidemio...

*Corresponding author: Ian Shrier, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada, E-mail: [email protected] Jay S. Kaufman: E-mail: [email protected], Robert W. Platt: E-mail: [email protected], Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University...

Occupational Health Program and Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Department of Biostatistics, and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Geography, National Changhua University of...

Occupational Health Program and Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Department of Biostatistics, and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Geography, National Changhua University of...

1 Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 2 Integrated Whole Person Care, Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 3 Division of Cardiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, McGill U...

1Children’s Hospital Informatics Program, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA; 2Dept of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; 3Dept of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; 4Dept of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 5Dept of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occ...