objectives: to determine the characteristics and etiologies of occupational trauma associated mortality in tabriz megacity, northern iran. methods : in a cross-sectional study, we included all the recorded cases of occupational mortalities referring to tabriz forensic medicine center, labor institute and imam reza and sina hospitals between march 2011 and march 2012. we recorded the demographic...

Rodney Ehrlich trained in economics at UCT and Oxford before switching to Medicine which he completed at UCT in 1981. He subsequently worked for the National Centre for Occupational Health in Johannesburg where his interest in lung disease in miners was kindled. After training in occupational medicine and epidemiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, he qualified as a speciali...

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...

background: the most common method of collecting data in any area of human health research is to apply a questionnaire. however, if extreme cautiousness is not taking into account while designing a questionnaire, the gathered data might be ineffective. therefore, the aim of the present article is to discuss some of the most important set of guidelines in designing a questionnaire.   materials a...

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...

Affiliations: McGill International Tuberculosis Centre, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada. FIND, Geneva, Switzerland. Dept of Medical Microbiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia. Division of Infectious Disea...

objective: primary immunodeficiency diseases (pid) are rare and heterogeneous congenital diseases leading to increased unusual susceptibility to developing infections and causingsome malignancies and autoimmune diseases. this study was conducted to evaluate the epidemiological characteristics of primary these diseases in patients attending the clinic of immunodeficiency diseases in kerman.subje...

1 Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD. 2 Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, ...