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WEB2 days ago · OEM is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes high quality research relating to the full range of chemical, physical, ergonomic, biological and psychosocial hazards in the workplace and to environmental contaminants and their health effects. OEM is the official journal of the Faculty of …
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WEBAuthors. Time to first decision with review (median): 71 days. Acceptance rate: 17%. Impact Factor (JCR): 3.9. Occupational and Environmental Medicine is an international peer reviewed journal covering current developments in occupational and environmental health worldwide. Occupational and Environmental Medicine publishes high-quality research ...
Welding and the risk of head and neck cancer: the ICARE study
WEBObjective To investigate the association between occupational exposure to welding and the risk of head and neck cancer in a large French population-based case-control study, the I nvestigation of occupational and environmental CA uses of RE spiratory cancers study. Methods Analyses were restricted to men (2703 controls and 1588 cases of squamous-cell carcinoma of the oral cavity, oropharynx ...
WEBMay 24, 2021 · this domain, this review was restricted to infectious bioaero-, 2020].
Approaches for estimating prevalence ratios | Occupational ...
WEBRecently there has been much interest in estimating the prevalence (risk, proportion or probability) ratio instead of the odds ratio, especially in occupational health studies involving common outcomes (for example, with prevalence rates above 10%). For example, if 80 out of 100 exposed subjects have a particular disease and 50 out of 100 non-exposed subjects have the disease, then the odds ...
Systematic review of fit note use for workers in the UK
WEBIn the largest study, ‘maybe fit’ for work was recommended in 6.5% of fit notes delivered by general practitioners (GP; n=361 801) between April 2016 and March 2017. ‘Maybe fit’ recommendations were made in 8.5%–10% of fit notes received by primary care patients in employment, and in 10%–32% of patients seen by GPs trained in the ...
SURVEILLANCE IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH - Occupational
WEBA definition of surveillance is as follows: “surveillance (ser-vâ1lens) noun. 1. Close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion. 2. The act of observing or the condition of being observed” ( The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language , 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992). The term “surveillance” is derived from the French word meaning ...
Criteria and methods used for the assessment of fitness for work: a ...
WEBThe main findings from reports published in scientific journals on the criteria and methods used to assess fitness for work were reviewed. Systematic searches were made using internet engine searches (1966–2005) with related keywords. 39 reports were identified, mostly from the US and western Europe. Assessment of fitness for work is defined by most as the evaluation of a worker’s capacity ...
Baker's asthma - Occupational & Environmental Medicine
WEBJul 1, 2002 · Baker's asthma is one of the most common forms of occupational asthma. The increasing knowledge in exposure–response relations accumulated in recent years is important in the understanding of baker's asthma. This development has made scientifically based prevention feasible today and baker's asthma should not be regarded as an inevitable occurrence any more. In 1700 Bernardo Ramazzini ...
WEBGlobal and regional burden of chronic respiratory disease in 2016 ... ... Collaborators