STUDY OBJECTIVE To study differences in total life expectancy and in occupationally active life expectancy in relation to social class and marital status in men classified as healthy as young adults. DESIGN Historical cohort study. SETTING Finland. PARTICIPANTS Altogether 1662 men classified as completely healthy at the time of induction to military service (mean birth year 1923), who had...

A historical cohort study of the printing industry was established after an anecdotal report of a cluster of cases of bladder cancer in a newspaper factory in Manchester. The cohort comprised some 9500 men who were members of one or other of two trade unions (the NGA and NATSOPA) in the Manchester area between 1949 and 1963. During the follow up period (1949-83) 3482 deaths occurred among men b...

In a paper (1) from this Institute published 20 years ago attention was drawn to the very distinct social distribution of cancer of the scrotum. The data were derived from the death certificates of the 921 cases of cancer of the scrotum and cancer of the penis, reported from England and Wales in 5 years (1913, 1914, 1921-23). As neither the numbers of males engaged in the various occupations no...

The results from the first year of a notification scheme for occupational asthma in the West Midlands Region are presented. The scheme includes recognised new and old cases of occupational asthma. Thirty new cases were recognised per million general working population in the first year. Cases recognised in different occupational groups ranged from 154 per million painters and assembly workers t...

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...

after islamic revolution of 1979, the left wing had a new sphere to act in political eras, and overcastted on the other groups, but as soon as possible, the unreligious left leaved the political scene of iran after revolution. it seems the religious groups –as the only legal political actors- are integrated under “islamic republic party” but so soon, we saw the distinction between them all. jus...

OFFICETECH® is a startup company providing office assistance over the Internet. It certifies assistants’ skills, matches them with potential clients, supervises the quality of the work done, and provides software tools for online collaboration. The founder, Gayle Barr, believed that this type of assistance would soon be the predominant model due to a convergence of several trends. First, advanc...

Computer-based monitoring, the practice of collecting performance information on employees through the computers they use at work, continues to be a popular topic. How much is known about computer-based monitoring as it is practiced in the workplace? Unfortunately, very little, even though much has been written on the subject. This article reports on five case studies of organizations that empl...