Role of female sex and occupational exposures when examining the rates and risks of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) ...

Relations between working conditions and mental health status of female hospital workers were studied in a sample of 1505 women: 43% were nurses, 32% auxiliaries, and 7% ancillary staff; 13% were ...

6 Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Correspondence to Simon Grandjean Bamberger, Department of Occupational Medicine, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University ...

3 Centre for Prevention and Health Services Research, Public Health and Health Services Division, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands 4 Institute for ...

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 ...

Background: Dysmenorrhoea is the most common gynaecological disorder in women of reproductive age. Despite the association between stress and pregnancy outcomes, few studies have examined the possible ...

Objectives Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and silicosis are associated with exposure to crystalline silica. We determined the exposure to respirable crystalline silica and estimated ...

Objectives Low organisational justice has been shown to be associated with increased risk of various health problems, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We tested whether organisational ...

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 ...

National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES), Helsinki, Finland Ari Väänänen, Centre of Expertise for Work Organizations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, ...

1 The Centre for Sleep Research, University of South Australia, 5th Floor, CDRC Building, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville Road, Woodville, South Australia, Australia 5001 2 ACCIRT, Institute ...

Objectives We investigated the association between protracted low-dose ionising radiation and the risk of cancer in medical radiation workers, the largest group of workers with occupational radiation ...