Objectives Police work is an occupation replete with stress. The present study examined associations between specific police stressors (overall, administrative pressure, physical threat, and lack of ...

Correspondence to Dr Ryan F Hoy, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia; ...

1 Health, Safety and Environment Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health, University of Wales College ...

Objectives This study investigated the ergonomic and safety hazards of small-scale miners in one of the largest small-scale mining area in the Philippines which is the area of Itogon, Benguet. Methods ...

Objectives Despite mounting evidence on epidemiological risk factors, Parkinson’s disease (PD) incidence remains largely unexplained. The purpose of this study was to test associations between ...

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 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Exposure to occupational hazards is an important preventable risk factor but the ...

Occupational exposure to dust has been linked with excess mortality from stomach cancer. To examine this hypothesis in respect of cement workers the mortality of a group of men, identified as cement ...

1 INSERM-IRSET no. 1085, Epidemiological Research on Environment, Reproduction and Development, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France Objective The potential impact of environmental exposure to ...

1 Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Science, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China 2 Department of Clinical Laboratory, 3rd Hospital Affiliated to Peking ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 2 National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic ...

Aim: To determine the possible influence of high physical load in the workplace on the physical fitness of employees. Methods: The subjects (494 men) were tested by means of Baecke’s questionnaire for ...