Introduction During their practice, nurses regularly encounter ethical dilemmas. The sources of these dilemmas, according to the literature, seem mainly related to clinical practice settings, such as ...

OBJECTIVE To study the mortality from cardiovascular and other chronic non-neoplastic diseases after long term exposure to inorganic mercury. Limited information is available on the effect of chronic ...

Dr N Kawakami, Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Okayama University Medical School, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japannorito{at}med.okayama-u.ac.jp OBJECTIVES To examine the ...

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 ...

1 School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 Black Dog Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 St George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, ...

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 ...

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 INSERM, U1018, Department of Environmental Epidemiology of cancers, Villejuif, France 2 Paris-Sud University, UMR-S1018, Department of Environmental Epidemiology of cancers, Centre for Research in ...

Background: Evidence from toxicological studies indicates that the risk of respiratory diseases varies with asbestos fibre length and width. However, there is a total lack of epidemiological evidence ...

Correspondence to Dr Annunziata Faustini, Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Service of Lazio, via Santa Costanza, 53, Rome 00198, Italy; a.faustini{at}deplazio.it. Background An association ...

5 The Research Unit for General Practice and Section of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 6 National Research Centre for the Working ...

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 ...