OBJECTIVE Evidence-based diagnostic and treatment guidelines for occupationally related interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) have been developed and are summarized herein. METHODS Comprehensive literature reviews were conducted with article abstraction, critiquing, objective grading, and evidence table compilation. A multidisciplinary expert panel drafted evidence- and consensus-based guidance. ...

Korea has industrialized since the 1970s. Pneumoconiosis in coal miners was the most common occupational disease in the 1970s to 1980s. With the industrialization, the use of many chemicals have increased since the 1970s. As a consequence, there were outbreaks of occupational diseases caused by poisonous chemicals, such as heavy metal poisoning, solvent poisoning and occupational asthma in the ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the impact of occupational diseases in Spain in terms of incidence and prevalence and to compare them with the notifications actually made. DESIGN Data of incidence and prevalence were obtained from studies carried out in Spain and in other countries. These studies were mostly based on epidemiological investigations, occupational diseases monitoring systems and surveys w...

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: musculoskeletal disorders (msds) are common among employees throughout the world, particularly in high risk groups such as nurses. objective: to determine the prevalence of msds among nurses in a large hospital in ahwaz, southwestern iran, and to examine its correlation with gender, age, shift working, years at service and smoking. methods: using a self-reported questionnaire-based ...

In modern conditions, the number of various employees in field education is increasing, whose work connected with overstrain voice apparatus, psycho-emotional load, unfavorable mode, which made it necessary to study functional state peculiarities process and risks harmful effects on health. Among occupational diseases, there are diseases vocal apparatus an nature, such as pharyngitis, laryngiti...