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Original articles

Environment

• Original article: Elevated ambient temperatures and risk of neural tube defects (22 November, 2016)

  Nathalie Auger, William D Fraser, Laura Arbour, Marianne Bilodeau-Bertrand, Tom Kosatsky

Workplace

• Original article: Mustard gas exposure and mortality among retired workers at a poisonous gas factory in Japan: a 57-year follow-up cohort study (11 August, 2016)

  Kenichi Mukaida, Noboru Hattori, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Yojiro Onari, Yoshifumi Nishimura, Keiichi Kondoh, Tomoyuki Akita, Junko Tanaka, Nobuoki Kohno
• Original article: Non-occupational physical activity levels of shift workers compared with non-shift workers (21 November, 2016)

  Bette Loef, Gerben Hulsegge, G C Wanda Wendel-Vos, W M Monique Verschuren, Roel C H Vermeulen, Marije F Bakker, Allard J van der Beek, Karin I Proper
• Original article: Lifting and exertion injuries decrease after implementation of an integrated hospital-wide safe patient handling and mobilisation programme (25 October, 2016) Free

  Jack T Dennerlein, Elizabeth (Tucker) O'Day, Deborah F Mulloy, Jackie Somerville, Anne M Stoddard, Christopher Kenwood, Erin Teeple, Leslie I Boden, Glorian Sorensen, Dean Hashimoto
• Original article: Underemployment and mental health: comparing fixed-effects and random-effects regression approaches in an Australian working population cohort (18 November, 2016)

  Allison Milner, Anthony D LaMontagne
• Original article: Effect of occupational physical activities on vertebral dimensions in midlife in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (18 November, 2016)

  Petteri Oura, Markus Paananen, Jaakko Niinimäki, Juha Auvinen, Leena Ala-Mursula, Juho-Antti Junno, Jaro Karppinen
• Original article: Risk factors for leptospirosis seropositivity in slaughterhouse workers in western Kenya (2 December, 2016)

  Elizabeth Anne Jessie Cook, William Anson de Glanville, Lian Francesca Thomas, Samuel Kariuki, Barend Mark de Clare Bronsvoort, Eric Maurice Fèvre
• Original article: Effect of occupational exposure to lead on new risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (16 December, 2016)

  Adam Prokopowicz, Andrzej Sobczak, Magdalena Szuła-Chraplewska, Marzena Zaciera, Jolanta Kurek, Izabela Szołtysek-Bołdys
• Original article: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders among construction workers in the United States from 1992 to 2014 (30 December, 2016)

  Xuanwen Wang, Xiuwen Sue Dong, Sang D Choi, John Dement
• Short Report: Predictive value of work-related self-efficacy change on RTW for employees with common mental disorders (22 December, 2016)

  Suzanne E Lagerveld, Veerle Brenninkmeijer, Roland W B Blonk, Jos Twisk, Wilmar B Schaufeli

Practice

• Comparison of competency priorities between UK occupational physicians and occupational health nurses (23 February, 2017)

  Drushca Lalloo, Evangelia Demou, Marisa Stevenson , Mairi Gaffney , Ewan Beaton Macdonald