Table of contents

Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: Contribution of health status and prevalent chronic disease to individual risk for workplace injury in the manufacturing environment (16 October, 2013)

  Jessica Kubo, Benjamin A Goldstein, Linda F Cantley, Baylah Tessier-Sherman, Deron Galusha, Martin D Slade, Isabella M Chu, Mark R Cullen
• Original article: The effect of leaving employment on mental health: testing ‘adaptation’ versus ‘sensitisation’ in a cohort of working-age Australians (2 December, 2013)

  A Milner, M J Spittal, A Page, A D LaMontagne
• Original article:

  Bladder cancer incidence among workers exposed to o-toluidine, aniline and nitrobenzene at a rubber chemical manufacturing plant

  (24 December, 2013)

  Tania Carreón, Misty J Hein, Kevin W Hanley, Susan M Viet, Avima M Ruder
• Original article: Unemployment and coronary heart disease among middle-aged men in Sweden: 39 243 men followed for 8 years (8 January, 2014)

  Andreas Lundin, Daniel Falkstedt, Ingvar Lundberg, Tomas Hemmingsson
• Original article: Cognitive function and plasma BDNF levels among manganese-exposed smelters (10 January, 2014)

  Yunfeng Zou, Li Qing, Xiaoyun Zeng, Yuefei Shen, Yaoqiu Zhong, Jing Liu, Qin Li, Kangcheng Chen, Yingnan Lv, Damin Huang, Guiqiang Liang, Wei Zhang, Lang Chen, Yiping Yang, Xiaobo Yang
• Original article: The impact of chronotype on melatonin levels among shift workers (7 January, 2014)

  Parveen Bhatti, Dana K Mirick, Scott Davis

Environment

• Original article: Associations between arrhythmia episodes and temporally and spatially resolved black carbon and particulate matter in elderly patients (18 October, 2013)

  Antonella Zanobetti, Brent A Coull, Alexandros Gryparis, Itai Kloog, David Sparrow, Pantel S Vokonas, Robert O Wright, Diane R Gold, Joel Schwartz
• Original article: Contact with animals and risk of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma: outcome of a case–control study from Kashmir, a high-risk region (9 January, 2014)

  Nazir Ahmad Dar, Farhad Islami, Gulzar Ahmad Bhat, Idrees Ayoub Shah, Muzamil Ashraf Makhdoomi, Beenish Iqbal, Rumaisa Rafiq, Mohd Maqbool Lone, Paolo Boffetta

Exposure assessment

• Original article: Rule-based exposure assessment versus case-by-case expert assessment using the same information in a community-based study (12 November, 2013)

  Susan Peters, Deborah C Glass, Elizabeth Milne, Lin Fritschi, the Aus-ALL consortium