This editorial is to announce the Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, a new Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal published by BioMed Central. Occupational medicine and toxicology belong to the most wide ranging disciplines of all medical specialties. The field is devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, management and scientific analysis of diseases from the fields of occupation...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of and differences in certain health complaints, including physical symptoms and psychological distress, among workers in different occupational categories and to explore the associations between occupational category and each complaint. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted using a self-administered questionnair...

In many regions, larger employers oversee a wide array of programs and activities to help manage the health, safety and well-being of workers. Examples of these functions include occupational safety and health programs, disability and return-to-work programs, disease management programs, worker compensation programs, employee assistance and health promotion or wellness programs, and various hum...

Industrial Health (NIIH) and the National Institute of Industrial Safety (NIIS) were amalgamated into a single, comprehensive research facility legislated as the Japan National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (JNIOSH), a new independent administrative government institution. From its inception as the Silicosis Laboratory, an attached office of the Industrial Health Division, Japan M...

Korea has a short history in research on occupational health like as short history of industrialization. During last four decades, however, Korea has experienced what developed countries have experienced for more than a hundred year. Research on occupational health in Korea has also drastically developed. Since industrialization in 1970s, many workers were exposed to hazardous working environme...

Occupational therapy seldom reports the outcomes of intervention programs to reflect the impact on public health indicators. Consequently, our professions' effect on public health goals is limited. We propose professional coherence in intervention practices and in reporting of screening, monitoring, and outcome indicators in population-level statistics that will enable occupational therapy to t...

BACKGROUND The main purpose of this study was to explore the status of occupational stress among hospital nurses in Isfahan, Iran. It also aimed to examine the relationship between nurses' occupational stress and their intention to leave the hospital. METHODS The study employed a cross-sectional research design. A validated questionnaire was used to collect data from 296 nurses. Respondents w...

AIMS This study describes qualitatively ageing workers and their health promotion. It also describes quantitatively the importance of individual, workplace and occupational health promoting factors, the impact of health promotion and the contributions of the other co-partners promoting the health of ageing workers. These form the foundation for a model of health promotion. BACKGROUND Very lit...

In this paper the Authors describe the development of workplace health promotion in Europe and show how, despite the fact that they have developed independently of one other the professional disciplines of Occupational Safety and Health together with Public Health have provided a common platform from which has emerged this new philosophy--Workplace Health Promotion (WHP). Whilst the paper draws...

A broad definition of community practice has implications for how occupational therapy services are defined, delivered, and funded. The historical foundations of occupational therapy support an expansion into health promotion and prevention programming that is based in the community. Moving into these roles opens up an array of funding possibilities. It may also require developing new partnersh...