In this article, early career members of the Epidemiology and Environment Assembly European Respiratory Society (ERS) summarise a selection five sessions from ERS 2020 Virtual International Congress. The topics covered include risk factors for chronic respiratory diseases over life course, origins to occupational exposures in adulthood, interplay between these factors, including gene–environmen...

elderly, due to immunosuppression caused by predisposing factors such as age, drugs, underlying diseases or malnutrition, is a risk factor for pulmonary tuberculosis (ptb).aged patients with ptb because of difficulty in diagnosis remain undiagnosed and acts as a source of infection in occupational space of health service units. general physicians (gp) as health care workers (hcw) are concerned ...

An occupational disease may be defined simply as one that is caused, or made worse, by exposure at work. While epidemiological studies of populations can determine whether disease is attributable to a particular type or level of exposure, for an individual patient this is less clear. Judgments about the patterns of exposure likely to be causal may be made in medicolegal cases or claims for comp...

Disease registers and surveillance schemes are not necessarily designed to measure incidence and prevalence, but their data can provide useful epidemiological insights. Their main functions are the detection and identification of hazards so that further cases can be prevented, and to provide a database for research to improve our understanding of the determinants and consequences of disease. Oc...

IARC, Lyon, France; Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Uomo e dell’Ambiente, Universita’ di Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Institute of Hygiene, Public Health, Health Services and Management, Bucharest, Romania; Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russia; Department of Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland; National Institute of Env...

Background: Latex allergy is a major occupational disease with prevalence nearly 5-17% among the health care workers. Objective: To determine the prevalence of latex glove allergy and its contributing factors among operation room staff. Patients and Methods: In this study, 512 operation room staff were evaluated for latex allergy, using a complete questionnaire. Those suspected to have latex al...

background: northern ontario, canada has a larger elder population, more resource-based employment, and limited access to physicians and specialists compared to southern ontario. given these important differences, it is possible that work disability rates will vary between the two ontario jurisdictions. objective: to determine the association between time lost due to workplace injuries and illn...