OBJECTIVES In a cross sectional study, work related health complaints and diseases of 58 compost workers and 53 biowaste collectors were investigated and compared with 40 control subjects. Levels of ...

1 Department of Occupational Medicine, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan, Italy 2 Chair of Occupational Medicine, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Sassari, Italy 3 ...

Correspondence to Dr Luoping Zhang, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; luoping{at}berkeley.edu; Dr Martha S Sandy, Office of Environmental Health ...

In this study the effects on hearing induced by occupational exposure to impulse noise were compared with those induced by exposure to continuous steady state noise. Three groups exposed to impulse ...

Aims: (1) To describe the prevalence of fatigue among employees in different work schedules (day work, three-shift, five-shift, and irregular shift work); (2) to investigate whether different work ...

Correspondence to Axel Andersson, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg Sahlgrenska Academy, Goteborg, Sweden; axel.andersson.2{at}gu.se The Nicaraguan data will be ...

Correspondence to Dr Quentin V Durand-Moreau, Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2T4, Canada; durandmo{at}ualberta.ca If you ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the occurrence and persistence of two restrictively defined neck-shoulder disorders among sewing machine operators. To assess factors associated with the development of ...

Background: The nested case-control design can be a very efficient approach to an epidemiological investigation. In order to obtain unbiased estimates of relative risk, controls should be selected by ...

Correspondence to Professor Juxiang Yuan, School of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei 063210, China; yuanjx{at}ncst.edu.cn Objectives In a 24/7 society, ...

Background The management of COVID-19 in Italian prisons triggered considerable concern at the beginning of the pandemic due to numerous riots which resulted in inmate deaths, damages and prison ...

Aims: To investigate the lagged effects of cold temperature on cardiorespiratory mortality and to determine whether “wind chill” is a better predictor of these effects than “dry bulb” temperature.