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From:Canadian Bulletin of Medical History (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. The Occupational Health Program (OHP) at the University of Alberta played an important and pioneering role in the specialty of occupational medicine in Canada between 1984 and 1999. Its history illustrates the...
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From:Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Vol. 59, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedWork is unanimously considered a major health determinant. Knowledge of people's working conditions greatly contributes to the recognition and prevention of damages to their health and to health promotion. Following in...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 291) Peer-ReviewedDraft standards for OH service providers have been published by the Faculty of Occupational Medicine - the first step towards a national accreditation system that it is hoped will be in place by the end of this year....
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From:Business History Review (Vol. 62, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed"On the Dump Heap": Employee Medical Screening in the Tri-State Zinc-Lead Industry, 1924-1932 ALAN DERICKSON I In the following article, Professor Derickson examines the motivation for and the results of employee...
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From:JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPAs in occupational medicine deliver employee health services in diverse settings--corporate medical offices, private physicians' offices, hospital employee health departments, remote pipeline locations, military bases,...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 29, Issue 14)Family physicians are increasingly occupying a new market niche: freestanding occupational medicine clinics. With large and small companies outsourcing more employee health care, occupational medicine openings have...
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From:Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Vol. 60, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Previous studies have indicated an association between shift work and cardiovascular disease. There is also considerable epidemiological evidence that hyperhomocysteinemia is an independent risk factor for...
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From:Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Vol. 60, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedOccup Environ Med 2003;60:634-642 Aims: To summarise recent literature on the risk of prostate cancer in pesticide related occupations, to calculate the meta-rate ratio, and to compare it to data from meta-analyses...
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From:Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Vol. 60, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAnalyses completed on samples collected between 1993 and 1996 showed that about 7% of 475 Inuit newborns from northern Quebec (Canada) had a cord blood lead concentration equal to or greater than 0.48 [micro]mol/l, an...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 412) Peer-ReviewedBy Nic Paton au aCeA two-year study is being launched this autumn to examine how the social standing and perceived value of health and safety regulation has changed over the past 50 years and whether there is genuine...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 310, Issue 6990) Peer-ReviewedThe prospects are not good for workers In 1990, a large sample of the British population was asked whether they had suffered from a work related injury or illness in the previous 12 months.1 In that year some 1.6...
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From:JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants (Vol. 20, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPAs in occupational medicine play an important role in maintaining a healthy workforce. Companies are trying to do what they can to ensure they have healthy workers because healthy employees are better for business....
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From:Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Vol. 60, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedA definition of surveillance is as follows: "surveillance (ser-v[a.sup.1]lens) noun. 1. Close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion. 2. The act of observing or the condition of being observed"...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 313, Issue 7062) Peer-ReviewedMedical, legal, and social implications are involved in the assessment of employee fitness for work. The recommendation for fitness rests on criteria of attendance and performance, health and safety risk to others and to...
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From:Industrial Health (Vol. 56, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThere is no single agreed definition of workaholism. Most interventions proposed for people suffering from workaholism target individuals. There is a paucity of descriptions of workplace risk factors. Our study examines...
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From:JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants (Vol. 20, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPAs who practice occupational medicine are the link between the patient and the primary care physician. PAs provide the continuity of care and continue the dialog that sometimes gets lost in this age of...
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From:Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Vol. 60, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedSaadat and colleagues (1) reported a significantly high sex ratio (proportion male) in births to people exposed to oil and natural gas from an Iranian oilfield. These authors cited a study of Yang and colleagues (2) of...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 327, Issue 7410) Peer-ReviewedOccupational Medicine (the journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine) recently published a consensus statement on the interaction between general practitioners and occupational health professionals in their roles...
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From:Physical Therapy (Vol. 81, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground and Purpose. Workers with musculoskeletal symptoms are often advised to cope with their symptoms by changing their working technique and by using lifting equipment. The main objective of this study was to...
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From:Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Vol. 60, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedNosocomial infections place a heavy burden on overstretched health services. An audit of junior doctors' sick leave behaviour was undertaken in 1993 and again in 2001. The object was to ascertain the level of common...