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Surveillance of work-related musculoskeletal disorders
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Dr Fred Gerr, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA; fred-gerr@uiowa.edu
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In this issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Palmer et al1 compare the prevalence of arm pain perceived by workers to be work-related with the prevalence of arm pain among persons who experience occupational exposure to any of four physical activities believed to give rise to arm pain (see page 331). The purpose of this comparison was to assess the potential for overestimation of attribution to work by affected workers. This was no mere academic exercise since the methods used to ascertain the prevalence of arm pain perceived by workers to be work-related duplicated those of the UK Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) Labour Force Survey, a set of questions administered to some 50 000 UK households which provides information about the employment status and health of UK citizens. According to the HSE, the Labour Force Survey is "the single most comprehensively reported data source for information
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