Objectives We aimed to estimate the prevalence of chronic bronchitis (CB), examine its association with occupational exposure to irritants assessed by self-reporting or the Nordic job exposure matrix ...

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: 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 ...

1 Department of Health Organization, Policy and Economics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands 2 Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands 3 Department of Medical Sociology ...

Correspondence to: Dr R Ketola, Musculoskeletal Research Unit, Department of Physiology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 aA, FIN-00250 Helsinki, Finland; ...

1 Department of Health Sciences, Community and Occupational Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen/University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 2 Center for Human Resource, Organization ...

Correspondence to Dr Sorosh Tabatabaeifar, Department of Occupational Medicine, Danish Ramazzini Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, Nørrebrogade 44, Building 2C, Aarhus C DK-8000, Denmark; ...

During the past decades conclusive evidence has accumulated that alkylating antineoplastic drugs (ADs) can cause cancer, most notably acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia, and that most ADs are reprotoxic.

3 Center for Ergonomics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 4 Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (RMCOEH), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, ...

2 Centre for Applied Health Economics, School of Medicine, Griffith University, Meadowbrook, Queensland, Australia Correspondence to Michelle Jessica Pereira, Discipline of Physiotherapy, The ...

Relations between working conditions and mental health status of female hospital workers were studied in a sample of 1505 women: 43% were nurses, 32% auxiliaries, and 7% ancillary staff; 13% were ...

OBJECTIVES To explore how metabolic risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) differ between shift workers and day workers in a defined population. Shift work has been associated with an increased ...