Correspondence to Dr Ewan Carr, Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK; ewan.carr{at}kcl.ac.uk Objectives To characterise the baseline King’s ...

2 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Correspondence to: Prof. J C McDonald National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine, Department of Occupational and ...

1 Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA 2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China 3 Institute for ...

OBJECTIVES To construct a computer assisted information system for the estimation of the numbers of workers exposed to established and suspected human carcinogens in the member states of the European ...

Correspondence to: Dr IJ Kant, Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands; IJ.Kant{at}epid.unimaas.nl In 1998, a large scale prospective cohort ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the validity of the checklist individual strength questionnaire (CIS) in the working population. This 20 item self reported questionnaire has often been used in patients with ...

1 Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, WV, USA 2 BioIntelligence Center, National ...

Correspondence to Dr Ying Li, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Gothenburg, SE 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden; ying.li{at}gu.se Background Municipal drinking water contaminated with ...

1 US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C-15, ...

OBJECTIVES To systematically evaluate the available evidence on occupational risk factors of shoulder pain. METHODS Relevant reports were identified by a systematic search of Medline, Embase, Psychlit ...

Objectives: Although obesity and permanent work disability impose a great burden on the individual and are very costly for society, data on the impact of being overweight on occupational disability ...