occupational health

..Policies modeled after the European Union's Directive on Part-Time Work may help to mitigate some of the health hazards associated with precarious work...

..Studying adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions seems well justified, especially in view of recent developments of the labor market...

..This study focused on estimating the relative risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in association with work stress, as indicated by the job-strain model, the effort-reward imbalance model, and the organizational injustice model...

..Implications for employers and health plans in examining the health and productivity consequences of common health conditions are discussed...

..The paper closes with a brief discussion of the calibration methodology used to monetize HPQ reports and of future directions in substantive research based on the HPQ...

..However, we found moderate scientific evidence for the effects of socio-economic status, which could be explained partly by childhood experiences...

..In the light of the importance of work for adult health such investigations are crucial in advanced societies within and beyond Europe...

..It is a fundamental tool in occupational health risk assessment (OHRA) and occupational health practice (OHP) and it has become one of the most, if not the ..

..To assess the influence of working conditions and individual factors on the incidence of neck and upper limb symptoms among professional computer users...

..11 and 4.26 pounds sterling. CONCLUSIONS: Smoke-free workplaces not only protect non-smokers from the dangers of passive smoking, they also encourage smokers to quit or to reduce consumption...

..Mental ill-health results in substantial reductions in employee productivity (absenteeism and presenteeism). This paper examines the relationship between employee psychological distress, employee type and productivity...

..This study was undertaken to estimate the most recent prevalence of cigarette smoking by occupation and industry in the US, using the data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), 1988-1994...

..Job strain was unrelated to risk of type 2 diabetes. In conclusion, working overtime predicted a slightly elevated risk of type 2 diabetes in young and middle-aged female nurses...

..As this is the first study of how illness flexibility at work affects behaviour at illness, it was concluded that more studies are needed...

..The present paper shows whether and when these two approaches are useful in longitudinal research...

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..This study explored the prevalence of smoking and the reported smoking cessation discussion with a primary healthcare provider (HCP) among a representative sample of currently employed US worker groups...

..Systematic review of the health and psychosocial effects of increasing employee participation and control through workplace reorganisation, with reference to the "demand-control-support" model of workplace health...

..the subject of recent research, is the impact of organizational climate on nurses' well-being, including occupational health outcomes...

..7% in men; 31.0% in women). CONCLUSIONS: Weight loss intervention programs targeting workers employed in occupational groups with high or increasing rates of obesity are urgently needed...

..The focus of the experiment was the timing of the intervention, that is, treatment before sickness absence actually occurs...

..To examine the risk of affective and stress related disorders among men and women employed in human service professions...

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..Predictive values of the WAI, the changed WAI, the single-item question and the changed single-item question were investigated for degree of sick leave, symptoms, and health...

..We also explored possible explanations for the relationship between behavior changes in these 2 behavioral domains...

..The risk was of comparable magnitude to that observed for age and sedentary behavior. Men and women with low levels of social support at work appeared to be at higher risk for increases in blood pressure...

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..The growing precarious employment in both industrialized and developing countries is interconnected, and the authors identify a number of the mechanisms affecting workers' health...

..Studies involving women are too few to draw any conclusion concerning women, work stress, and IHD...

..No significant differences were found between the model predicted and actual medical claims costs for the individuals in both screening and calibration (n=9689) subsamples...

..2) To select reliable and valid tests concerning lifting, pushing, and pulling, which consider the relation between occupational work demands and the assessment of the maximally acceptable load on an individual level...

..Our findings underscore the notion that prevention and treatment of fatigue should be aimed at health perception and emotional well-being...

..The pressor effect, per se, of popular Japanese alcoholic beverages on blood pressure may not be different among the types of alcoholic beverages after adjusting for other lifestyle factors...

..We sought to compare the medical services utilization and average annual direct (ie, medical and medication) and indirect (ie, work-loss) costs for employees with painful conditions to a random sample ("average employee")...

..There was a statistically significant link between the respondents' stress and sickness levels. The results raise issues about the nature of nurses' working experiences...

..To critically review the literature with respect to the effectiveness of worksite physical activity programs on physical activity, physical fitness, and health...

..CNT represent a group of particles that are growing in production and use, and therefore, research into their toxicology and safe use is warranted...

..We distinguish between productivity, work role limitations, quality of work output, and extra effort required to remain productive...

..Over 13 years, together with the Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety, NIEHS funded 54 environmental justice projects...

..The presence and quality of a knowledge infrastructure is thought to influence the practice of EBM in occupational health care...

..This implicates that the NFR may form a valuable part of health surveys and may be a useful tool for evaluating occupational healthcare interventions...

..The aim of this study was to explore the prospective relation between job stress and symptoms of depression within a cohort study...

..Integrating research and action represents a goal and key principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR), but there has been little effort to synthesise the literature to evaluate whether such integration is occurring...

..Because corporations are often the primary payers of health-care costs in the United States, they have a vested interest in knowing the impact of metabolic syndrome in employed individuals...

..New initiatives show that occupational health can profit from intensified international collaboration to establish a good functioning knowledge ..

..Despite the epidemiological evidence linking job strain to cardiovascular disease, more insight is needed into the etiologic mechanisms. This, in turn, would help to more precisely identify risk...

..Abdominal sonographic examination may provide valuable information for IHD risk assessment in addition to limited report about liver status, especially for overweight males...

..Well Works-2 was a randomized, controlled study comparing the effectiveness of a health promotion/occupational health program (HP/OHS) with a standard intervention (HP)...

In October 2002 an obligatory occupational health check for all preclinical students at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg was introduced...

..proposition, however, takes on new meaning when considering the challenging and deeply important issue of occupational health disparities--the topic that is the focus of 12 articles in this special issue of the American Journal of ..

The scientific literature regarding preventive occupational health and safety activities in small enterprises has been reviewed in order to identify effective preventive approaches and to develop a future research strategy...

..The psychosocial environment is significantly associated with an increased risk of OIIA. Further research is needed to understand causal pathways and to explore potential interventions...

..Contrary to expectations, the operationalization of injuries did not meaningfully moderate safety climate-injury relationships. Implications and recommendations for future research and practice are discussed...

..Clinimetric data for the fire fighting simulation test (FFST), a new test proposed for the Workers' Health Surveillance (WHS) of Dutch fire fighters, were evaluated...

..Tests of AFFD should provide an employer with a valid assessment of an employee's ability to perform the job safely, without discriminating against the employee purely on the basis of hearing loss...

..Immigrant Latino day laborers working in residential construction are at particularly high risk of fatal and non-fatal traumatic injury and benefit from targeted training...

..OSHA enforcements should target small construction establishments in order to lower overall fatality rates, costs, and unnecessary losses of life...

..Investigate factors associated with employee participation rates in health risk assessments...

..knowledge was gathered on occupational demands and health effects of two occupations in the construction industry, bricklayers and supervisors, in order to design a job-specific workers' health surveillance (WHS) for construction workers...

..A presenteeism discourse needs to be more prominently articulated to oppose both the absenteeism discourse, and to moderate the views taken by some postmodernist theorists on choice in relation to health practices in workplace settings...

..The data were from baseline surveys taken in 1999 and 2000 from the High-Risk and Population Strategy for Occupational Health Promotion (HIPOP-OHP) study in Japan...

..As the therapy workforce ages, and shortages of therapists are predicted, it is important to evaluate differences in injuries and injury behaviors between older and younger therapists...

To show the power of history science methods for exposure assessment in occupational health studies, using the dry cleaning industry in Denmark around 1970 as the example.

..A set of eleven interventions are described and recommended technical specifications are presented...

..Demographics and economic interdependence suggest that immigration will continue for the near future at record high levels...

..work and which do not can be agreed upon, a shared understanding is needed of how the effectiveness of occupational health interventions should be evaluated; and theme 4 -- building relationships between those who do research and ..

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..This would require multidisciplinary research groups, long-term research environments, international commitment, opportunities for good professional development within the field, and reliable basic data, including sick-listing diagnoses...

..Participants also reported favorable perceptions of yoga: feeling more focused and less musculoskeletal pain. These findings - along with the retention of the majority of the participants - indicate that participants benefited from yoga...

..with Rodgers' concept analysis methods and to examine the possibility of applying the concept to Japanese occupational health. Using presenteeism as a search term, articles were selected from the MEDLINE, PsycINFO and Japana Centra ..

Little is known about the most effective occupational health and safety (OHS) interventions to reduce upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and injuries.

..They received additional training and were given responsibility for safe work practices. This article reports on progress made to date, viewed as work in progress...

..This paper describes the design characteristics of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)-funded studies that are testing innovative environmental interventions for weight control and obesity prevention at worksites...

BACKGROUND: There is emerging evidence that coordinating and integrating worksite health promotion and occupational health and safety enhances the effectiveness of efforts to promote and protect worker health, and growing attention ..

..We also propose the use of very low and ultralow frequency HRV components in autonomic research for workers' health...

..This paper presents a condensed history of the benzene bioassay story with mention of benzene-associated human cancers...

..17 (1.17-4.03), 3.30 (1.67-6.52), and 12.8 (5.14-32.1)...

We reviewed the occupational health and safety intervention literature to synthesize evidence on financial merits of such interventions.

..Employees with psychological distress may take time off work but it appears that they make up for lost time possibly to stay up to speed with task driven occupations and avoid performance review...

..Yet, advice for and support in work related coping with chronic diseases, and collaboration with occupational health are not--yet--part of routine curative medical care procedures...

..In addition, the effect of occupational class on these associations is examined...

To describe the characteristics, working conditions, and occupational health situation of immigrant workers in Spain through key informants.

..Furthermore, we discuss the interpretation of the cytogenetic findings in the context of occupational health and give several examples when the results of cytogenetic analysis provided the chief argument used to ..

..This systematic review is a part of a large research project studying multiple workplace factors and interventions that may affect workers' health and well-being...

..In attempting to improve occupational health and infection control procedures to prevent occupationally acquired infections in health care workers, it ..

..The authors encourage investigators to make distinctions between the underlying factors related to the use of the general population as the comparison group in occupational epidemiology...

..This discussion highlights the possible difficulties faced by the FDA in reviewing productivity-based promotional claims. Finally, we suggest possible strategies for furthering this field of investigation...

..The significance of improved self-efficacy at 6 months and depression at 2 months postsurgery highlights the importance of psychosocial management of musculoskeletal disorders...

..This article studied the justice of interpersonal treatment by supervisors (the relational component of organisational justice) as a predictor of health...

..This study investigated the prevalence and work factors of WRMDs among physiotherapists in Nigeria...

..Implementing an influenza vaccination program would reduce the burden of ILI and save substantial amounts of money for the company...

..As a result, workplace disability management approaches have been developed to lower disability costs, protect the employability of workers, and promote early return to work...

..Tobacco exacts a disproportionate toll on individuals employed in working class occupations, due to higher prevalence of smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke among these workers compared to others...

..Conclusion: Not hiring workers with abnormal POPP nerve tests to reduce costs of work-related CTS is not a cost-effective strategy for employers...

..The remaining two potential effect modifiers, occupational exposures and smoking, will be assessed in a case-referent study within the study base...

The authors analyzed environmental risk prevention programs and occupational health monitoring programs implemented by 30 companies from various industrial sectors, each with more than 100 employees, in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil...

..toxicology, radiological health, industrial ventilation, physical agents, air sampling and analysis, occupational health, principles of industrial hygiene, and air pollution...

DESCRIPTION (Provided by applicant): The goal of the Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety (MCOHS) is to provide: (1) cutting-edge interdisciplinary academic and research training to continue to prepare exceptional leaders ..

..The key academic departments are Work Environment at UML and Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Occupational Health Psychology, and Health Promotion at UC...

..Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota share a common set of problems that outstrip existing occupational health resources: rising population, large groups of underserved Native American and Latino workers, region-..

..Carpenters are exposed to occupational health hazards (e.g., asbestos, wood dust, solvents) and engage in lifestyle behaviors (e.g...

The proposed meeting, 28th International Congress on Occupational Health: Renewing a Century of Commitment to a Healthy, Safe, and Productive Working Life, will be held in Milan, Italy June 11-16, 2006...

DESCRIPTION (Provided by Applicant): This proposal seeks to maintain an existing program in Occupational Health Nursing (OEHN) at the master's and doctoral level at the University of Pennsylvania...

..Inna Dardynskala, Research Associate Professor in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences under the mentorship of Dr...