Introduction Five million US Veterans had possible exposure to open burn pits used for waste disposal through service in Iraq (2003–2011) and Afghanistan (2001–2014). Burn pits generate toxic ...

Correspondence to: Dr IJ Kant, Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands; IJ.Kant{at}epid.unimaas.nl In 1998, a large scale prospective cohort ...

Correspondence to Dr Ying Li, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Gothenburg, SE 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden; ying.li{at}gu.se Background Municipal drinking water contaminated with ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the validity of the checklist individual strength questionnaire (CIS) in the working population. This 20 item self reported questionnaire has often been used in patients with ...

2 Department of Social and Organisational Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands 3 Department of Work and Organisational Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Correspondence to: Drs I ...

Correspondence to: Dr G Swaen, Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands; g.swaen{at}epid.unimaas.nl Aims: To determine whether fatigue and need ...

Shiftwork and Safety Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Leeds, UK. OBJECTIVES: Shiftwork is now a major feature of working life across a broad range of industries. The features of the ...

1 Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA 2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China 3 Institute for ...

Aims: (1) To describe the prevalence of fatigue among employees in different work schedules (day work, three-shift, five-shift, and irregular shift work); (2) to investigate whether different work ...

Associate Professor Anne-Marie Feyer, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, PO Box 913, Dunedin, New Zealand email afeyer{at}gandalf.otago.ac.nz OBJECTIVE To examine risk ...

OBJECTIVES To systematically evaluate the available evidence on occupational risk factors of shoulder pain. METHODS Relevant reports were identified by a systematic search of Medline, Embase, Psychlit ...

5 Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA Objectives To study associations between ...