Published in International archives of occupational and environmental health
After 14 days offshore, a statistically significant decline in FEV1 was observed in the drill floor workers, which may not be related to oil mist exposure. No pulmonary fibrosis related to oil mist exposure was observed.
Published in International archives of occupational and environmental health
Differences in cardiac autonomic modulation between work and leisure were found, indicating sympathetic predominance during work and parasympathetic predominance during leisure for sitting. Autonomic responses can be part of the mechanism that explains the differential effect of occupational and leisure time physical activity on health.
Published in International archives of occupational and environmental health
The degree of openness towards communicating about-and handling pain-in the organization (individual, collegial and managerial levels) influences how managers handle employees with pain. Awareness about employee health is a prerequisite for management to initiate relevant action towards supporting employees. Future workplace initiatives are likely ...
Published in International archives of occupational and environmental health
Lumbar, knee, shoulder, and wrist MSS are the most common symptoms among construction workers. Future studies should standardize the reporting of period prevalence of MSS in different construction trades to allow meta-analyses and to develop relevant MSS prevention program.
Published in International archives of occupational and environmental health
No significant excess of mortality was observed at the scale of the full cohort. The cause-specific excesses of mortality observed in the subgroup of workers hired at the manufacturing unit were based on small number of cases, but would warrant further investigations. Undertaking analytical studies and combined analyses of cohorts of uranium miller...
Published in International archives of occupational and environmental health
Organizational injustice is associated with work ability, self-reported disability days, and health-care utilization. Results support the notion of a complementary role of the models of organizational justice and effort-reward imbalance.
Published in International archives of occupational and environmental health
Published in International archives of occupational and environmental health
BMIs above the normal range are progressively associated with lower work ability in relation to the physical demands of the job, especially among individuals with mainly sedentary work. Ergonomic research on how to optimally design workstations for workers with obesity are needed.
Published in International archives of occupational and environmental health
These cross-sectional findings suggest that a peak pesticide-use period can decrease AChE activity of children living near plantations. These seasonal pesticide exposures could induce short- and long-term developmental alterations in children. Studies assessing exposures at multiple times in relation to pesticide spray seasons among children who do...
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Our findings require further monitoring. Since the apparently increased cancer risk in core cities may be related to lifestyle factors, preventive measures against lifestyle-related cancer could be specifically targeted at populations in deprived core cities.
