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 ...

Objectives: Although obesity and permanent work disability impose a great burden on the individual and are very costly for society, data on the impact of being overweight on occupational disability ...

1 Department of Health Organization, Policy and Economics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands 2 Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands 3 Department of Medical Sociology ...

1 Department of Health Sciences, Community and Occupational Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen/University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 2 Center for Human Resource, Organization ...

3 Center for Ergonomics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 4 Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (RMCOEH), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, ...

2 Centre for Applied Health Economics, School of Medicine, Griffith University, Meadowbrook, Queensland, Australia Correspondence to Michelle Jessica Pereira, Discipline of Physiotherapy, The ...

1 Institute of Hygiene and Applied Physiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Clausiusstr. 25, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland 2 Department of Rheumatology and Institute of Physical Medicine, ...

OBJECTIVES To identify the common core competencies required for occupational physicians in Europe. METHOD A modified Delphi survey was conducted among members of the European Association of Schools ...

1 Department of Toxicology, School of Public Health, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China 2 Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public ...

Department of Public Health, Ehime University School of Medicine, Japan. The effects of various conditions, including temporary threshold shifts (TTS) induced by exposure to vibration on vibration ...

Objectives To quantify changes in vitamin D and matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP9) in submariners over a single long patrol and compare the data to a group of non-deploying servicemen from their base ...