Aims: To use national surveillance data in Canada to describe gender differences in the pattern of farm fatalities and severe injuries (those requiring hospitalisation). Methods: Data from the ...

1 Reader in Clinical Health Psychology, Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK 2 Consultant in ...

Aim: To compare self-reported sickness absence days in the last 12 months with recorded absences from the employers’ registers for the same period. Methods: Self-reported sickness absence data over ...

Objectives Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally and the second most frequent cause of death in Denmark. Due to their unique occupational environment, seafarers are ...

Random error (misclassification) in exposure measurements usually biases a relative risk, regression coefficient, or other effect measure towards the null value (no ...

Correspondence to Dr Thomas Clemm, Department of Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Statens arbeidsmiljoinstitutt, Oslo, Norway; thomas.clemm{at}outlook.com Background Testing of vibration ...

4 Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 5 Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the validity of the checklist individual strength questionnaire (CIS) in the working population. This 20 item self reported questionnaire has often been used in patients with ...

3 Department of Chemical and Biological Working Environment, National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway 4 Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, National Institute of Occupational Health ...

Objectives: Major depression is a leading cause of psychiatric morbidity and may be influenced by psychosocial factors in the workplace, although evidence so far remains circumstantial. This paper ...

Professor Paul Elliott, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary's, London W2 1PG, UK OBJECTIVES AND METHODS Chlorination has been the major ...

The “need for recovery scale” is suggested as an operationalisation for the measurement of (early symptoms of) fatigue at work. Definition of and background on the concept of need for recovery are ...