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 ...

Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Dr M Medina-Ramón, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Landmark Center, ...

This paper systematically reviews the scientific literature on the effects of individual and work-related factors on the Work Ability Index (WAI) Studies on work ability published from 1985 to 2006 ...

Conclusions Working in mines or quarries was associated with an elevated lung cancer risk. We found no trend by duration of employment. These results were derived from job titles and industry codes ...

Objectives Evidence for effects of environmental contaminants on pregnancy outcomes remains inconclusive. We investigated the associations between multiple, correlated exposures and related pregnancy ...

1 University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, The Netherlands 2 University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen ...

1 Centre for Workplace Health, Health and Safety Executive, Buxton, UK We read with interest the recent article by Hoy et al highlighting the risk of accelerated silicosis in workers installing ...

Correspondence to Sam Pattenden, PEHRU, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; sam.pattenden{at}lshtm.ac.uk Background Acute associations between mortality ...

Correspondence to Dr Piia Lavikainen, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, 70211, Finland; piia.lavikainen{at}uef.fi Objectives This study examined the effectiveness of an ...

Objective Long before ‘occupational epidemiology’ existed as a formal discipline, astute clinicians, workers or local observers reported unusual disease patterns in specific jobs. These early sentinel ...

Department of ‘Work and Health’, Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Berlin, Germany Correspondence to Dr Matthias Möhner, Department of ‘Work and Health’, Federal Institute for ...

Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna. ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain. Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre for Public Health, Medical ...