Objectives Increasing epidemiological and experimental evidence suggests that particle exposure is an environmental risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, only a few case–control ...

Objectives Recently, the Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (IWPQ) version 0.2 was developed. One of its main purposes is to detect changes in individual work performance, for example in ...

1 School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 Black Dog Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 St George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, ...

University of Glasgow, Department of Public Health, UK. OBJECTIVES: To determine the value of using routinely collected sickness absence data as part of a health needs assessment of healthcare workers ...

Objectives The influence of commercial helium–oxygen saturation diving on divers’ gut microbiotas was assessed to provide dietary suggestion. Methods Faecal samples of 47 divers working offshore were ...

The “need for recovery scale” is suggested as an operationalisation for the measurement of (early symptoms of) fatigue at work. Definition of and background on the concept of need for recovery are ...

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.

Objectives Examination of lung function abnormalities among coal miners has historically focused on actively working miners. This likely underestimates the true burden of chronic respiratory disease.

Objectives: To identify the effects of indium on the lung and to assess exposure-effect and exposure-response relations between indium exposure and effects on the lungs. Methods: Ninety three male ...

Background Although recent studies have identified important risk factors associated with incident carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), risk factors associated with its severity have not been well explored.

Objective: There is limited information on the public health impact of wildfires. The relationship of cardiorespiratory hospital admissions (n = 40 856) to wildfire-related particulate matter (PM 2.5) ...

1 Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Feinberg Medical School, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2 Emergency Medicine, Department of ...