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| Kay TeschkeSummaryAffiliation: University of British Columbia Country: Canada Publications
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Effects of de-industrialization on unemployment, re-employment, and work conditions in a manufacturing workforceA S Ostry
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
BMC Public Health 1:15. 2001....- Estimating nurses' exposures to ionizing radiation: the elusive gold standardKay Teschke
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Occup Environ Hyg 5:75-84. 2008..This means that careful hazard assessment is required to ensure that monitoring is complete where exposures are probable, without incurring the excess costs and lack of specificity of including the unexposed... - Water and sewage systems, socio-demographics, and duration of residence associated with endemic intestinal infectious diseases: a cohort studyKay Teschke
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
BMC Public Health 10:767. 2010..We conducted a cohort study of physician visits and hospitalizations for endemic intestinal infectious diseases in a mixed rural and urban community near Vancouver, Canada, with varied and well-characterized water and sewage systems... - Exposure to anesthetic gases and congenital anomalies in offspring of female registered nursesKay Teschke
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Am J Ind Med 54:118-27. 2011..We conducted a retrospective cohort study to examine associations between registry-ascertained congenital anomalies in offspring and anesthetic gas exposure of mothers employed as nurses... - Measuring posture for epidemiology: comparing inclinometry, observations and self-reportsKay Teschke
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ergonomics 52:1067-78. 2009..A combination of inclinometry and observations would be an ideal option to provide both depth and breadth of data on postures and other physical exposures for epidemiological research... - Public opinions about participating in health researchKay Teschke
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
Can J Public Health 101:159-64. 2010..We investigated public willingness to participate in health research and how willingness was affected by various factors... - Impact of the specificity of the exposure metric on exposure-response relationshipsMelissa C Friesen
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Epidemiology 18:88-94. 2007.... - Exposures to atmospheric effects in the entertainment industryKay Teschke
University of British Columbia, Health Care and Epidemiology, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Occup Environ Hyg 2:277-84. 2005..It is important to consider these exposures in light of any health effects observed, since existing occupational exposure limits were developed in other industries where the aerosol composition differs from that of theatrical fogs... - Impact of expert versus measurement-based occupational noise exposure estimates on exposure-response relationshipsMelissa C Friesen
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z3
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 81:837-44. 2008.... - The impact of hearing conservation programs on incidence of noise-induced hearing loss in Canadian workersHugh Davies
School of Environmental Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Am J Ind Med 51:923-31. 2008..Hearing conservation program legislation and the programs themselves were designed to lower risk of resulting occupational noise-induced hearing loss, but there has been no broad-based effort to assess the effectiveness of this policy... - Mixed models and empirical bayes estimation for retrospective exposure assessment of dust exposures in Canadian sawmillsMelissa C Friesen
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Ann Occup Hyg 50:281-8. 2006..We assess three models for predicting historical dust exposures of sawmill workers... - Occupational noise exposure and hearing protector use in Canadian lumber millsHugh W Davies
School of Environmental Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
J Occup Environ Hyg 6:32-41. 2009..Determinants of noise exposure modeling offers a good method for the quantitative estimation of noise exposure... - Mortality and cancer incidence in a cohort of registered nurses from British Columbia, CanadaHelen Dimich-Ward
Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Am J Ind Med 50:892-900. 2007..A retrospective cohort study of provincial registered nurses (RNs) from British Columbia, Canada was undertaken to determine risks of mortality and cancer incidence; in particular for breast cancer and leukemia... - Effects of theatrical smokes and fogs on respiratory health in the entertainment industrySunil Varughese
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada
Am J Ind Med 47:411-8. 2005..Reducing exposure, through controls, substitution, and elimination where possible, is likely to reduce these effects... - Rates of congenital anomalies and other adverse birth outcomes in an offspring cohort of registered nurses from British Columbia, CanadaLaura T Arbour
Department of Medical Genetics, Island Medical Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Victoria, BC
Can J Public Health 101:230-4. 2010.... - Built environment influences on healthy transportation choices: bicycling versus drivingMeghan Winters
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Urban Health 87:969-93. 2010..Future research should explicitly consider relevant spatial zones when investigating the relationship between physical activity and urban form... - Optimising sampling strategies: components of low-back EMG variability in five heavy industriesCatherine M Trask
School of Environmental Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occup Environ Med 67:853-60. 2010..Direct/ measurement of work activities is costly, so researchers need to distribute resources efficiently to elucidate the relationships between exposures and back injury... - Congenital anomalies in the offspring of nurses: association with area of employment during pregnancyHelen Dimich-Ward
UBC Department of Medicine, Vancouver, Canada
Int J Occup Environ Health 17:195-201. 2011..Further research is needed to determine whether these are chance or consistent findings and whether exposure patterns might provide biological plausibility... - An investigation of the adjustment of retrospective noise exposure for use of hearing protection devicesHind Sbihi
School of Environmental Health, University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z3
Ann Occup Hyg 54:329-39. 2010..To account for use of hearing protection devices (HPDs) in retrospective noise exposure assessment, adjust noise exposure estimates accordingly, and validate the adjusted estimates... - Reducing attenuation in exposure-response relationships by exposure modeling and grouping: the relationship between wood dust exposure and lung functionKay Teschke
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Am J Ind Med 46:663-7. 2004.... - Determinants of exposure to metalworking fluid aerosol in small machine shopsAndrew S Ross
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, V6T 1Z3, Canada
Ann Occup Hyg 48:383-91. 2004..Factors associated with reduced aerosol exposure included machining aluminum, milling, the height (and shape) of the shop roof (for both sample types) and the presence of mechanical shop ventilation (for the 37 mm cassette samples)... - Cancer incidence and adverse pregnancy outcome in registered nurses potentially exposed to antineoplastic drugsPamela A Ratner
School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, 302 6190 Agronomy Road, Vancouver, V6T 1Z3, Canada
BMC Nurs 9:15. 2010.... - Back injury trajectories in heavy industries: defining outcomes for epidemiological researchMieke Koehoorn
School of Population and Public Health, School of Environmental Health, College for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Occup Environ Med 52:908-12. 2010..To propose an incidence definition of back injury for epidemiologic studies using health care contacts... - Cancer and occupational exposure to pentachlorophenol and tetrachlorophenol (Canada)Paul A Demers
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Cancer Causes Control 17:749-58. 2006..The objective of this study is to assess the carcinogenicity of pentachlorophenol and tetrachlorophenol using data from the BC sawmill workers cohort study... - Route preferences among adults in the near market for bicycling: findings of the cycling in cities studyMeghan Winters
Department of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Am J Health Promot 25:40-7. 2010..To provide evidence about the types of transportation infrastructure that support bicycling... - Determinants of use of hearing protection devices in Canadian lumber mill workersHind Sbihi
School of Environmental Health, University of British Columbia, 3rd Floor, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z3
Ann Occup Hyg 54:319-28. 2010..As such information was seldom available for individual workers, modeling was necessary to predict hearing protection use and derive adjusted noise measures... - Measuring low back injury risk factors in challenging work environments: an evaluation of cost and feasibilityCatherine Trask
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4
Am J Ind Med 50:687-96. 2007..Measuring low back injury risk factors in field research presents challenges not encountered in laboratory environments... - Predicting personal exposure of pregnant women to traffic-related air pollutantsElizabeth Nethery
School of Environmental Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Sci Total Environ 395:11-22. 2008..g. gas stove). These findings improve our understanding of sources of exposure to air pollutants among pregnant women and support the use of outdoor concentration estimates as proxies for exposure in epidemiologic studies... - How long is long enough? Evaluating sampling durations for low back EMG assessmentCatherine M Trask
University of British Columbia, School of Environmental Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Occup Environ Hyg 5:664-70. 2008..Depending on the purpose of measurement and the detail required, 4 hr or even 2 hr appears to be long enough to reasonably estimate full-shift exposure... - Occupational exposure to noise and mortality from acute myocardial infarctionHugh W Davies
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Epidemiology 16:25-32. 2005..Although there is evidence of hypertension among noise-exposed workers, evidence of heart disease has been less conclusive... - Excess of symptoms among radiographersHelen Dimich-Ward
Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Am J Ind Med 43:132-41. 2003..The prevalence and occupational determinants of miscellaneous symptoms referred to as "Darkroom disease" was compared between radiographers and physiotherapists working in British Columbia, Canada... - Quality of life and employment status of workers with Western red cedar asthmaHelen Dimich-Ward
Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, VGH Research Pavilion, 390 828 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver BC V5Z 1L8, Canada
J Occup Environ Med 49:1040-5. 2007..The impact of current employment status and other factors on quality of life was evaluated for workers diagnosed with western red cedar asthma in British Columbia, Canada... - Evaluation of a modified scavenging system to reduce occupational exposure to nitrous oxide in labor and delivery roomsEd Chessor
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Occup Environ Hyg 2:314-22. 2005..Additional modifications to the scavenging system are required to further reduce nitrous oxide concentrations and to improve comfort and usability... - Beta(1-->3)-glucan exposure levels among workers in four British Columbia sawmillsLisa A Ronald
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ann Agric Environ Med 10:21-9. 2003.... - Trace element levels in adults from the west coast of Canada and associations with age, gender, diet, activities, and levels of other trace elementsNina A Clark
BC Centre for Disease Control, BC, Canada
Chemosphere 70:155-64. 2007..Several statistically significant correlations were also observed between trace elements... - The impact of transportation infrastructure on bicycling injuries and crashes: a review of the literatureConor C O Reynolds
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia UBC, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Environ Health 8:47. 2009..There is a growing body of research examining transportation infrastructure and the risk of injury to bicyclists... - Utilitarian bicycling: a multilevel analysis of climate and personal influencesMeghan Winters
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Am J Prev Med 32:52-8. 2007..We investigated the impact of individual- and city-level characteristics on bicycling in Canadian cities to inform transportation and public health policies... - Uptake of cadmium from Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) in British Columbia oyster growersRay Copes
BC Centre for Disease Control, 655 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Environ Res 107:160-9. 2008.... - Recruitment of healthy first-trimester pregnant women: lessons from the Chemicals, Health & Pregnancy study (CHirP)Glenys M Webster
School of Environmental Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
Matern Child Health J 16:430-8. 2012..While a convenience sample of women is suitable for our study questions, additional strategies may be required to recruit a more representative pregnant population in future studies... - Exposures and their determinants in radiographic film processingKay Teschke
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
AIHA J (Fairfax, Va) 63:11-21. 2002..Developments in digital imaging technology are making available options that do not involve wet-processing of photographic film and therefore could eliminate the use of developer and fixer chemicals altogether... - Potential for increased human foodborne exposure to PCDD/F when recycling sewage sludge on agricultural landKaren Rideout
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Environ Health Perspect 112:959-69. 2004..However, the use of sludge on land used to graze animals appears likely to result in increased human exposure to PCDD/F... - Predictors of herbicide exposure in farm applicatorsTye E Arbuckle
Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada, A L 0701D, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0L2, Canada
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 75:406-14. 2002.... - Assessment of exposure in an international study on cancer risks among pulp, paper, and paper product workersTimo Kauppinen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41aA, FIN 00250 Helsinki, Finland
AIHA J (Fairfax, Va) 63:254-61. 2002..It also provides a good documentation of exposure assignments, which may be useful in the interpretation of the results and in future updates of the study... - Cancer mortality in workers exposed to organochlorine compounds in the pulp and paper industry: an international collaborative studyDavid McLean
International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; Center for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
Environ Health Perspect 114:1007-12. 2006.... - Exposure levels and determinants of softwood dust exposures in BC lumber mills, 1981-1997Andrew H Hall
Wageningen Agricultural University, Occupational and Environmental Health Group, P O Box 238, 6700 AE Wageningen, The Netherlands
AIHA J (Fairfax, Va) 63:709-14. 2002..This research indicates that compliance-sampling strategies do not result in an overestimation of mean exposure levels within jobs, but they do focus on a biased sample of jobs-those most highly exposed... - Mortality from lung cancer in workers exposed to sulfur dioxide in the pulp and paper industryWon Jin Lee
International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
Environ Health Perspect 110:991-5. 2002..Although residual confounding may have occurred, our results suggest that occupational exposure to SO(2) in the pulp and paper industry may be associated with an increased risk of lung cancer... - Exposure to asbestos and lung and pleural cancer mortality among pulp and paper industry workersRafael Carel
International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert-Thomas, 69008 Lyon, France
J Occup Environ Med 44:579-84. 2002....