results high-ranking officials in our study had less work experience in their current jobs and smoked fewer pack-years of cigarette, but they had higher waist and hip circumference, higher triglyceride level, more stress from role overload and responsibility, and higher total stress score. our group of office workers had more occupational stress because of role ambiguity and insufficiency, but ...

In 1892 Dr John Thomas Arlidge, physician at the North Staffordshire Infirmary, published The hygiene, diseases and mortality of occupations.' This lengthy volumeover 550 pages-was the first significant British publication on occupational diseases since Charles Turner Thackrah's The effects of the principal arts, trades and professions, ... on health and longevity, published in 1831.2 Hygiene m...

This is intended to improve working conditions, reduce pollution in the working environment, prevent occupational accidents and occupational diseases, provide health care for workers, raise awareness, ensure compliance with Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) laws; and to protect physical safety and the life of workers, assets of the State, of business and of the organization; all of which wil...

Occupational medicine has been formally recognized as a specialty since 1978 but until recently it has been practised largely outside the National Health Service so that its content and scope may be unfamiliar to many doctors. The Faculty of Occupational Medicine which has just celebrated its tenth anniversary has, as one of the features of the examination for Associateship, a requirement to pa...

Airborne contaminants occur in the gaseous form (gases and vapours) or as aerosols. Aerosols may exist in the form of airborne dusts, sprays, mists, smokes and fumes. In the occupational setting, all these forms may be important because they relate to a wide range of occupational diseases. Airborne dusts are of particular concern because they are well known to be associated with classical wides...

BACKGROUND In medical terms, occupational diseases are defined as health disorders specifically associated with the working environment of people and their occupational activity. From the medical and legal perspectives, the vast majority of European countries consider particular diseases to be of occupational origin if they are mentioned in the current list of occupational diseases and caused b...

A pilot study tested the feasibility of conducting occupational health research in Bangladesh while examining prevalence of asbestos-related diseases including asbestosis, work-related respiratory symptoms, and attitudes to occupational health and safety among a group of internal migrant ship breakers. Data was collected on clinical and work history, respiratory symptoms, and occupational healt...

This 3rd edition describes pulmonary diseases caused by occupational environments, and includes guidance on the investigation and management of these diseases. The text contains sections on prevention, asbestos related diseases, the legal aspects of occupational lung disease, and the present judicial process. The chapters are written in an historical context, tracing the development of knowledg...

Within the large variety of subtypes of chronic cough, either defined by their clinical or pathogenetic causes, occupational chronic cough may be regarded as one of the most preventable forms of the disease. Next to obstructive airway diseases such as asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which are sometimes concomitant with chronic cough, this chronic airway disease gains importance...

INTRODUCTION Environmental factors contribute with 16% of the burden of disease in Colombia. A main obstacle in implementing national and regional environmental and occupational health policies is the limited knowledge on the local ability to study and control the impact of harmful exposures on health. OBJECTIVE To identify needs for research and training in environmental and occupational hea...