Shahnaz Tofangchiha ; Faezeh Dehghan ; Hamid reza Saberi 3 1Department of Internal Medicine, Imam Reza Hospital, AJA University Of Medical Sciences ,Tehran, IR Iran 2Department of occupational medicine, Imam Reza Hospital, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Department of Occupational Health, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Faezeh D...

In line with epidemiological tradition, studies of cardiovascular health in working populations can be divided into 3 types: analytic, experimental, or interventionist, and descriptive studies. The first type of study aims to determine whether certain factors are associated with a greater risk of CVD. These factors may be specific to working populations, or not. Interventionist studies aim to d...

The WORKSAFE IOWA Occupational Medicine Associates Network is a unique health care model for dispensing regional occupational medicine services in the state of Iowa, USA. WORKSAFE IOWA is an educational, informational, and consultation service of the College of Public Health at The University of Iowa. WORKSAFE IOWA includes a fee-for-service industrial hygiene program, the Occupational Medicine...

This article reviews the biological and occupational medicine literature related to H5N1 pandemic influenza and its impact on infection control, cost and business continuity in settings outside the health care community. The literature on H5N1 biology is reviewed including the treatment and infection control mechanisms as they pertain to occupational medicine. Planning activity for the potentia...

Occupational medicine is a distinctive branch of medicine because it deals with the health of people at work. Large industrial firms and other firms may employ doctors full-time to advise on health and arrange for the first-aid treatment of injuries, screening for disease in the workforce, control of injurious agents used in manufacture, and in general making the workplace safe. Relationships h...

introduction: occupational exposure to ionizing radiation due to medical activities (both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures) has increased sharply in recent years. among the occupationally exposed workers in these fields, those most affected by this increased exposure to ionizing radiation are nuclear medicine workers. in this study, annual average effective dose, annual collective effectiv...