3 Health and Safety Laboratory, Broad Lane, Sheffield S3 7HQ, UK Correspondence to: Dr H J Mason, Health and Safety Laboratory, Broad Lane, Sheffield S3 7HQ, UK; howard.mason{at}hsl.gov.uk Aims: To ...

2 Expert Centre for Chemical Risk Assessment, Arbo Unie, The Netherlands 3 Environmental Epidemiology Division, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands ...

Objectives Recently, the Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (IWPQ) version 0.2 was developed. One of its main purposes is to detect changes in individual work performance, for example in ...

Objectives Increasing epidemiological and experimental evidence suggests that particle exposure is an environmental risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, only a few case–control ...

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, ...

Background Exposure to natural environments is thought to be beneficial for human health, but the evidence is inconsistent. Objective To examine whether exposure to green and blue spaces in urban ...

1 Department of Occupational Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan 2 School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan 3 Green Energy and Environmental Research ...

Objective This study investigated the association between long-term exposure to black smoke (BS) air pollution and mortality in two related Scottish cohorts with 25 years of follow-up. Methods Risk ...

The “need for recovery scale” is suggested as an operationalisation for the measurement of (early symptoms of) fatigue at work. Definition of and background on the concept of need for recovery are ...

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 ...

Aims: To investigate the lagged effects of cold temperature on cardiorespiratory mortality and to determine whether “wind chill” is a better predictor of these effects than “dry bulb” temperature.