Correspondence to Professor Hsien-Ho Lin, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University, 17 Xu-Zhou Road, Rm706, Taipei 100, Taiwan; hsienho{at}ntu.edu.tw Objectives ...

Background Despite the fact that labour market flexibility has resulted in an expansion of precarious employment in industrialised countries, to date there is limited empirical evidence concerning its ...

Correspondence to Dr Ryan F Hoy, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia; ...

Objective To identify, appraise and synthesise studies that have examined the degree to which new workers are at an elevated risk of work-related acute injuries and musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries.

Association between biosecurity and zoonotic transmission of LA-MRSA CC398 from industrial pig farms to farm workers and their household members ...

2 Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, ...

2 Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Department of Family Medicine and ...

1 Health, Safety and Environment Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health, University of Wales College ...

Falling asleep while driving accounts for a considerable proportion of vehicle accidents under monotonous driving conditions. Many of these accidents are related to work--for example, drivers of ...

Objectives Police work is an occupation replete with stress. The present study examined associations between specific police stressors (overall, administrative pressure, physical threat, and lack of ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 2 National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic ...

Introduction Coal miners in Queensland Australia have a pre-employment medical and then medical every five years. In 2015, cases of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP) were identified among ...