The International Labour Organisation (ILO) Governing Body during its 307th session in March 2010 approved the updated list of occupational diseases. The 2010 ILO list contains 106 items in four ...

Discipline of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia Dr R T Gun, Discipline of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA 5005 ...

Aims: To develop, pilot, and evaluate a workplace intervention to reduce sickness absence, based on a demand-control-support model of job strain. Methods: Changes in the working arrangements of ...

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2 Department of Occupational Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany 3 Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, ...

Several organs (lung, skin, thyroid, heart, bone marrow) are potential targets of cobalt (Co). Whereas there is no doubt that inhalation of Co alone may cause bronchial asthma, its role in the ...

1 US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C-15, ...

The mortality of a census population and a prospective cohort of men employed on an antimony smelter in the north east of England was followed up from 1961-1992. The workers studied were exposed to a ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the risk of silicosis among tin miners and to investigate the relation between silicosis and cumulative exposure to dust (Chinese total dust and respirable crystalline silica ...