Background Personal protective equipment (PPE) is defined as equipment that protects the
wearer's body against health/safety risks at work. Gloves cause many dermatoses. Non …

Background To improve occupational health public policies and to facilitate coordinated
research within the European Union to reduce the incidence of occupational diseases …

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” …

The risk of psychological disorders influencing the health of workers increases in
accordance with growing requirements on employees across various professions. This study …

Background Construction workers are at increased risk of work-related ill-health (WRI)
worldwide. Aims To compare the incidence of medically reported WRI in occupations within …

Background: Air pollution–mortality risk estimates are generally larger at longer-term,
compared with short-term, exposure time scales. Objective: We compared associations …

Background Estimated incidence rates for occupational skin disease in the UK are provided
by voluntary surveillance schemes involving dermatologists and occupational physicians …

This book presents a model for instructing bilingual students in International Schools across
the curriculum. In such schools there is now a majority of second language learners, and …

Background The length of time that people with HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART) with viral
load suppression will be able to continue before developing viral rebound is unknown. We …

Objective Hexavalent chromate (chromate) in cement is a well-recognised cause of allergic
contact dermatitis (ACD). Consequently in January 2005, following European Union …