burns are injuries which may require long hospitalization and may result in important impairment and disability. burn injuries are still common especially in developing countries. assessment of the epidemiology of burns is very important for introduction of preventive methods. this study was conducted in yazd to assess and describe the epidemiology of burns including its main causes, and its de...

Department of Neurology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Department of Epidemiology, Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical...

UNLABELLED Various epidemiological study designs are available to investigate illness and injury risks related to workplace exposures. The choice of study design to address a particular research question will be guided by the nature of the health outcome under study, its presumed relation to workplace exposures, and feasibility constraints. This review summarises the relative advantages and lim...

Program Codes: 20FS1634MS (Biostatistics MS) 20FS1634PHD (Biostatistics PhD) 20FS1635MS (Community Health Sciences MS) 20FS1635PHD (Community Health Sciences PhD) 20FS1636MS (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences MS) 20FS1636PHD (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences PhD) 20FS1637MS (Epidemiology MS) 20FS1637PHD (Epidemiology PhD) 20FS1638MS (Health Policy and Administration M...

Background: Teaching epidemiology of occupational diseases is an important course for occupational health students. If these courses are taught with problem based learning or other new educational methods they will be more beneficial. The objective of this study was the determination of the effects of three educational methods on learning of epidemiology of occupational diseases. Methods: This ...

BACKGROUND Standard approaches to assessing exposures for epidemiologic studies tend to concentrate resources on obtaining detailed data for each study participant at the expense of characterizing within-person variability. METHODS This paper presents some basic, generalizeable concepts concerning exposure and its variability, describes methods that can be used to analyze, describe, and under...

T he European Respiratory Society (ERS) has contributed, since its foundation in 1990, to epidemiology and occupational health through the Occupation and Epidemiology Assembly (Assembly 6) with three Groups: Epidemiology; Occupational and Environmental Health; and Tobacco, Smoking Control and Health Education. These groups have been working on the development of respiratory epidemiology and the...