Table of contents

Original articles

Environment

• Original article: Forest fires are associated with elevated mortality in a dense urban setting (17 August, 2011)

  Antonis Analitis, Ioannis Georgiadis, Klea Katsouyanni
• Original article: The impact of heatwaves on mortality and emergency hospital admissions from non-external causes in Brisbane, Australia (30 June, 2011)

  Xiao Yu Wang, Adrian Gerard Barnett, Weiwei Yu, Gerry FitzGerald, Vivienne Tippett, Peter Aitken, Gerard Neville, David McRae, Ken Verrall, Shilu Tong
• Original article: Exposure to wood smoke particles produces inflammation in healthy volunteers (30 June, 2011)

  Andrew J Ghio, Joleen M Soukup, Martin Case, Lisa A Dailey, Judy Richards, Jon Berntsen, Robert B Devlin, Susan Stone, Ana Rappold

Exposure assessment

• Original article: Occupational noise exposure assessment using O*NET and its application to a study of hearing loss in the US general population (1 July, 2011)

  Yoon-Hyeong Choi, Howard Hu, SangWoo Tak, Bhramar Mukherjee, Sung Kyun Park

Methodology

• Original article: Structural equation models in occupational health: an application to exposure modelling (15 June, 2011)

  Mary E Davis

Workplace

• Original article: A case–cohort study of lung cancer in poultry and control workers: occupational findings (17 October, 2011)

  Martha Felini, Nikiconia Preacely, Nihita Shah, Anita Christopher, Vishnu Sarda, Mohammed Elfaramawi, Macodou Sall, Saritha Bangara, Subi Gandhi, Eric S Johnson
• Original article: Risk factors for musculoskeletal symptoms of the neck or shoulder alone or neck and shoulder among hospital nurses (18 October, 2011)

  Victor C W Hoe, Helen L Kelsall, Donna M Urquhart, Malcolm R Sim
• Original article: Occupational health impact of the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic: surveillance of sickness absence (14 June, 2011) Free

  Isabel Torá-Rocamora, George L Delclos, José Miguel Martínez, Josefina Jardí, Constança Alberti, Rafael Manzanera, Yutaka Yasui, Ramón Clèries, Aurelio Tobías, Fernando G Benavides
• Original article: Noise exposure and serious injury to active sawmill workers in British Columbia (1 July, 2011)

  Rakel N Kling, Paul A Demers, Hasanat Alamgir, Hugh W Davies
• Original article: Occupational dust and radiation exposure and mortality from stomach cancer among German uranium miners, 1946–2003 (15 December, 2011)

  M Kreuzer, K Straif, J W Marsh, F Dufey, B Grosche, D Nosske, M Sogl