5 Imperial College London, National Heart & Lung Institute, Respiratory Epidemiology, Occupational Medicine and Public Health, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Drushca Lalloo, Healthy Working Lives ...

1 Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA 2 Health Effects Laboratory Division, National ...

Department of Occupational Health, Swedish National Institute for Working Life, Solna, Sweden. OBJECTIVES: To review the possible association between occupational exposure to dust and ischaemic heart ...

Program in Physical Therapy, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Correspondence to: A/Prof. P M Ludewig Program in Physical ...

a MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Community Clinical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK, b Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, UK Dr Keith Palmer, MRC ...

Background: Scattered patches of crocidolite, one form of asbestos, were found in the surface soil in the rural county of Da-yao in southwestern China. In 1983, researchers from the West China ...

Aims: To study supervisory behaviour as a predictive factor for return to work of employees absent due to mental health problems; and to explore the association between conditional factors and ...

Aims: To use national surveillance data in Canada to describe gender differences in the pattern of farm fatalities and severe injuries (those requiring hospitalisation). Methods: Data from the ...

4 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Objective The long-term effects of protracted low level ionising ...

Objectives: To alleviate traffic congestion in Central London, the Mayor introduced the Congestion Charging Scheme (CCS) in February 2003. We modelled the impact of the CCS on levels of traffic ...

1 Reader in Clinical Health Psychology, Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK 2 Consultant in ...

Aim: To compare self-reported sickness absence days in the last 12 months with recorded absences from the employers’ registers for the same period. Methods: Self-reported sickness absence data over ...