Introduction Stone quarry workers are constantly exposed to crystalline silica dust of different particle sizes in different concentrations. General objective To determine the effects of stone dust on ...

Introduction Community participation is an important component of a community based health intervention especially in designing, implementing and sustainability issue. A model of community ...

This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate ethnic differences in self reported health in the city of Malmö, Sweden, and whether these differences could ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The study is an empirical investigation of sickness presenteeism in relation to occupation, irreplaceability, ill health, sickness absenteeism, personal income, and slimmed down ...

Correspondence to Dr Phil Edwards, Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; Phil.Edwards{at}lshtm.ac.uk Background Many local ...

1 Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA Design: Cross ...

Correspondence to: Dr C Reinhardt Pedersen, National Institute of Public Health, Svanemøllevej 25, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; crp{at}dike.dk Objective: To study the association between parents’ ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which older people's self assessments of general health, physical health, and mental health predict functional decline and mortality. DESIGN The study uses ...

3 School of Social and Human Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Correspondence to Chenkai Wu, School of Biological and ...