Robert M Park

Summary

Affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Uncompensated consequences of workplace injuries and illness: Long-term disability and early termination
    Robert M Park
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH, USA Electronic address
    J Safety Res 44:119-24. 2013
  2. ncbi Silicosis exposure-response in a cohort of tin miners comparing alternate exposure metrics
    Robert M Park
    Risk Evaluation Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio
    Am J Ind Med 56:267-75. 2013
  3. ncbi Cadmium and lung cancer mortality accounting for simultaneous arsenic exposure
    Robert M Park
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Education and Information Division, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
    Occup Environ Med 69:303-9. 2012
  4. ncbi Exposure-response relationship and risk assessment for cognitive deficits in early welding-induced manganism
    Robert M Park
    Risk Evaluation Branch, Education and Information Division, NIOSH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 51:1125-36. 2009
  5. ncbi Impact of publicly sponsored interventions on musculoskeletal injury claims in nursing homes
    Robert M Park
    Education and Information Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
    Am J Ind Med 52:683-97. 2009
  6. ncbi Exposure to crystalline silica, silicosis, and lung disease other than cancer in diatomaceous earth industry workers: a quantitative risk assessment
    R Park
    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, Cincinnati, OH 45226 1998, USA
    Occup Environ Med 59:36-43. 2002
  7. ncbi A search for thresholds and other nonlinearities in the relationship between hexavalent chromium and lung cancer
    Robert M Park
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
    Risk Anal 26:79-88. 2006
  8. ncbi Issues in neurological risk assessment for occupational exposures: the Bay Bridge welders
    Robert M Park
    Risk Evaluation Branch, Education and Information Division, NIOSH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
    Neurotoxicology 27:373-84. 2006
  9. ncbi Mortality of iron and steel workers in Korea
    Robert M Park
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
    Am J Ind Med 48:194-204. 2005
  10. ncbi Potential occupational risks for neurodegenerative diseases
    Robert M Park
    Education and Information Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, MS C 15, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
    Am J Ind Med 48:63-77. 2005

Detail Information

Publications23

  1. ncbi Uncompensated consequences of workplace injuries and illness: Long-term disability and early termination
    Robert M Park
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH, USA Electronic address
    J Safety Res 44:119-24. 2013
    ..Costs related to early retirement, termination, or long-term disability could fall outside workers' compensation (WC)...
  2. ncbi Silicosis exposure-response in a cohort of tin miners comparing alternate exposure metrics
    Robert M Park
    Risk Evaluation Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio
    Am J Ind Med 56:267-75. 2013
    ..Am. J. Ind. Med. 56:267-275, 2013. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc...
  3. ncbi Cadmium and lung cancer mortality accounting for simultaneous arsenic exposure
    Robert M Park
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Education and Information Division, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
    Occup Environ Med 69:303-9. 2012
    ..Prior investigations identified an association between airborne cadmium and lung cancer but questions remain regarding confounding by arsenic, a well-established lung carcinogen...
  4. ncbi Exposure-response relationship and risk assessment for cognitive deficits in early welding-induced manganism
    Robert M Park
    Risk Evaluation Branch, Education and Information Division, NIOSH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
    J Occup Environ Med 51:1125-36. 2009
    ..A reanalysis using improved exposure, work history information, and diverse exposure metrics is presented here...
  5. ncbi Impact of publicly sponsored interventions on musculoskeletal injury claims in nursing homes
    Robert M Park
    Education and Information Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
    Am J Ind Med 52:683-97. 2009
    ..The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) has sponsored interventions that were preferentially promoted to nursing homes in 2000-2001, including training, consultation, and grants up to $40,000 for equipment purchases...
  6. ncbi Exposure to crystalline silica, silicosis, and lung disease other than cancer in diatomaceous earth industry workers: a quantitative risk assessment
    R Park
    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, Cincinnati, OH 45226 1998, USA
    Occup Environ Med 59:36-43. 2002
    ..To estimate excess lifetime risk of (a) mortality from lung disease other than cancer (LDOC), and, (b) onset of radiographic silicosis, arising from occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica dust...
  7. ncbi A search for thresholds and other nonlinearities in the relationship between hexavalent chromium and lung cancer
    Robert M Park
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
    Risk Anal 26:79-88. 2006
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  8. ncbi Issues in neurological risk assessment for occupational exposures: the Bay Bridge welders
    Robert M Park
    Risk Evaluation Branch, Education and Information Division, NIOSH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
    Neurotoxicology 27:373-84. 2006
    ..These results indicate unacceptable risks at the current OSHA PEL for manganese (5.0 mg/m3, 15 min) and likely at the Cal OSHA PEL as well...
  9. ncbi Mortality of iron and steel workers in Korea
    Robert M Park
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
    Am J Ind Med 48:194-204. 2005
    ..The mortality experience of iron and steel workers from modern plants in developing countries has not been extensively described...
  10. ncbi Potential occupational risks for neurodegenerative diseases
    Robert M Park
    Education and Information Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, MS C 15, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
    Am J Ind Med 48:63-77. 2005
    ..Associations between occupations and neurodegenerative diseases (NDD) may be discernable in death certificate data...
  11. ncbi Hexavalent chromium and lung cancer in the chromate industry: a quantitative risk assessment
    Robert M Park
    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, Cincinnati, OH 45226 1998, USA
    Risk Anal 24:1099-108. 2004
    ..Our analysis predicts that current occupational standards for hexavalent chromium permit a lifetime excess risk of dying of lung cancer that exceeds 1 in 10, which is consistent with previous risk assessments...
  12. ncbi An alternate characterization of hazard in occupational epidemiology: years of life lost per years worked
    Robert M Park
    Risk Evaluation Branch, Education and Information Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
    Am J Ind Med 42:1-10. 2002
    ..To explore other approaches, we calculated excess years of potential life lost and excess lifetime risk for both lung diseases and fatal injuries in a cohort of uranium miners with historical records of exposure to radon gas...
  13. ncbi Hazard identification in occupational injury: reflections on standard epidemiologic methods
    Robert M Park
    Education and Information Division, Risk Evaluation Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
    Int J Occup Environ Health 8:354-62. 2002
    ..By enhancing exposure assessment through a focus on case series, epidemiologic research can expand its contribution to preventing workplace injuries...
  14. ncbi Excess risk of head and chest colds among teachers and other school workers
    SangWoo Tak
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
    J Sch Health 81:560-5. 2011
    ..This analysis examined whether teachers and other school workers are at higher risk of head/chest cold compared to all other workers in the United States...
  15. ncbi Comparing median lethal concentration values using confidence interval overlap or ratio tests
    Matthew W Wheeler
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway MS 15, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
    Environ Toxicol Chem 25:1441-4. 2006
    ..Thus, a ratio-based statistical procedure is preferred to using simple overlap of two independently derived confidence intervals...
  16. ncbi Excess healthcare costs associated with prior workers' compensation activity
    Anasua Bhattacharya
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio
    Am J Ind Med 55:1018-27. 2012
    ..Workers compensation (WC) does not fully compensate workplace injuries and illnesses. This work examines whether cost shifting occurs to group health insurance for work-related injuries and illnesses...
  17. ncbi Worker injuries and safety equipment in Ohio nursing homes
    Stefan Stanev
    The Nielsen Company, Cincinnati, OH, USA
    J Gerontol Nurs 38:47-56. 2012
    ..More information, such as frequency of use and access to ver-sus availability of equipment, may be needed to better understand the im-pact of safety equipment on nursing home worker injury rates...
  18. ncbi External cause-specific summaries of occupational fatal injuries. Part I: an analysis of rates
    A John Bailer
    Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 1641, USA
    Am J Ind Med 43:237-50. 2003
    ..Industries and occupations vary with respect to the incidence of fatal injuries and their causes...
  19. ncbi Sequelae of fume exposure in confined space welding: a neurological and neuropsychological case series
    Rosemarie M Bowler
    San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA
    Neurotoxicology 28:298-311. 2007
    ....
  20. ncbi Cancer morbidity in iron and steel workers in Korea
    Yeon Soon Ahn
    Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, Bupyung, Incheon, Korea
    Am J Ind Med 49:647-57. 2006
    ..The cancer morbidity of iron and steel workers from modern plants in a developing country is described...
  21. ncbi External cause-specific summaries of occupational fatal injuries. Part II: an analysis of years of potential life lost
    A John Bailer
    Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 1641, USA
    Am J Ind Med 43:251-61. 2003
    ....
  22. ncbi Cancer and construction: what occupational histories in a Canadian community reveal
    James T Brophy
    Int J Occup Environ Health 13:32-8. 2007
    ..The increased risk among construction workers supports the need for more comprehensive study of exposures in this occupational group...
  23. ncbi Multiple sclerosis (MS) in an Illinois community
    Robert M Park
    Arch Environ Health 57:383; author reply 383. 2002