1 Section of Thoracic Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway; 2 Centre Recerca Epidemiologia Ambiental (CREAL-IMIM), Barcelona, Spain; 3 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; 4 Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia; 5 Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, National Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of...

Epidemiological studies have found that teenage workers have higher occupational injury rates than adult workers, and that young males are a particularly high-risk subgroup. However, there have been few studies to date that have explored qualitatively young workers' everyday understandings and experiences of occupational health risks. Based on focus groups conducted with Canadian urban and subu...

Two outbreaks involving 31 persons with jaundice are described. All had originally been diagnosed as having viral hepatitis. But subsequent muestigations showed that all had been exposed to chloroform at work. Toxic jaundice from chemical exposure presents a similar clinical picture to that of viral hepatitis, but fever appears to be uncommon. Doctors who look after workers should be familiar w...

In the course of studies of the epidemiology of coronary heart disease the suggestion arose that deaths from this condition in middle age may be less common among men engaged in physically active work than among those in " sedentary " jobs (Morris, Heady, Raffle, Roberts, and Parks, 1953). In testing this hypothesis an analysis was made of data in the Registrar General's Decennial Supplement fo...

A literature review of 16 papers on occupational injury research in Malaysia published during a 13-year period from 2000-2013 was carried out. The objective of this review and article selection was based on relevance to the research theme and mention of areas for future research. Most of the publications have focused on descriptive epidemiology, management practices, worker's knowledge, attitud...

Occupational asthma is the most common form of occupational lung disease in the developed world at the present time. In this review, the epidemiology, pathogenesis/mechanisms, clinical presentations, management, and prevention of occupational asthma are discussed. The population attributable risk of asthma due to occupational exposures is considerable. Current understanding of the mechanisms by...

The California OSHA Airborne Contaminant Advisory Committee reviewed several hundred substances and recommended occupational exposure limits with the intent of worker and employer protection. The model used offers important benefits. First, by allowing open meetings, the process was transparent, and input could be offered by concerned stakeholders. Second, the process was data-driven and, there...

This paper is intended to give the reader an overview of the epidemiology of asbestos-related diseases and is restricted to primarily occupational exposure studies. However, some mention of nonoccupational exposures are made because of their direct relationship to a worker or to a secondary occupational source. Over 100 epidemiological studies are reviewed, dating back to the first case of asbe...

BACKGROUND Rather than a clinical diagnosis, in occupational medicine the critical point is the etiological diagnosis. The first is useful for the therapy, the latter for preventive, epidemiological, regulatory, and insurance measures. DISCUSSION As with causality criteria which are employed in population studies, the answering of four easy questions allows a Primary Care Practitioner to esta...