Objectives Asbestos is an inflammatory agent, and there is evidence that inflammatory processes are involved in the development of cardiovascular disease. Whether asbestos is a risk factor for ...

Occupational and Environmental Medicine considers unsolicited submissions of a variety of article types, including original research, systematic reviews, and short reports. The Author Information ...

The development of methods for the assessment of the thermal environment is traced, and the reasons for the devising of special indices of thermal stress are discussed. The more important of the ...

Objectives Coal miners suffer increased mortality from non-malignant respiratory diseases (NMRD), including pneumoconioses and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, compared with the US population.

Occupational determinants of Long COVID in the population-based COVICAT cohort ...

2 Department of Medical Statistics, Faculty of Epidemiology and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Objectives The authors conducted a population-based survey to ...

Objectives Radon is a ubiquitous occupational and environmental lung carcinogen. We aim to quantify the association between radon progeny and lung cancer mortality in the largest and most up-to-date ...

2 School of Public Health, University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA Correspondence to: Dr D Gimeno Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, The ...

The concept of occupational safety and health of the workers is a new concept even to the oldest industries of Nepal. The government of Nepal has enforced concepts of OSH through its Labour Act 1992.

Correspondence to Dr Akira Wiberg, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Science, Oxford University, Oxford, OX1 2JD, UK; akira.wiberg{at}ndorms.ox.ac.uk Objectives ...

Bone marrow specimens were obtained from seven workers who had been exposed to the dust of a calcareous sandstone consisting of 56·3% free silica. The pattern of changes was in the form of generalized ...

Objective High job demands and low resources significantly affect healthcare professionals, leading to burnout and diminished quality of care provided (QoCP). This study examines 1) the relative ...