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Aim: To assess the incidence and risk factors for neck and shoulder pain in nurses. Methods: A longitudinal study of neck and shoulder pain was carried out in female nurses at two hospitals in England ...

Aims: To present the available empirical evidence for the assumed position of the concept of work related fatigue as: (1) short term effect of the working day; and (2) an intermediate variable between ...

Background: The nested case-control design can be a very efficient approach to an epidemiological investigation. In order to obtain unbiased estimates of relative risk, controls should be selected by ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

OBJECTIVES To construct a computer assisted information system for the estimation of the numbers of workers exposed to established and suspected human carcinogens in the member states of the European ...

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 ...

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 ...

Falling asleep while driving accounts for a considerable proportion of vehicle accidents under monotonous driving conditions. Many of these accidents are related to work--for example, drivers of ...

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