background: incense and joss stick are generally used in the world. most products were made in small household factories. there are many environmental and occupational hazards in these factories. objective: to evaluate the workplace environmental and occupational hazards in small household incense and joss stick factories in roi-et, thailand. methods: nine small household factories in rural are...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine the risk of asthma among patients with occupationally induced rhinitis. DESIGN Patients with confirmed occupational rhinitis were followed for asthma incidence through register linkage. Patients with other occupational diseases were used as a reference population. SUBJECTS Patients entered into the Finnish Register of Occupational Diseases in from 1988 to 1999 ...

OBJECTIVE To study transient risk factors for occupational eye injuries. METHODS A case-crossover study was conducted among patients treated for occupational eye injuries in the emergency department at an eye hospital in Alabama. A questionnaire was administered to collect information regarding risk factors at the time of and prior to eye treatment. Incidence rate ratios were used to measure ...

INTRODUCTION Professional stress can damage all organs and systems of exposed workers. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of occupational stress on lipid state of exposed professional drivers in road traffic. MATERIAL AND METHODS The atherogenic risk in vehicle drivers professionally exposed to stress was assessed by measuring total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL-cholesterol a...

Occupational exposure to high-molecular-weight allergens is a risk factor for the development and pathogenesis of IgE-mediated respiratory disease. In some occupational environments, workers are at an increased risk of exposure to fungal enzymes used in industrial production. Fungal enzymes have been associated with adverse health effects in the work place, in particular in baking occupations. ...

Little is known about the contribution of occupational skin exposure as a risk factor for physician-certified long-term sick leave in the general working population of Norway. This study drew a cohort (n = 12,255; response at baseline 69.9%) randomly from the general population of Norway. Occupational skin exposure (in 2009) was measured based on 5 items. The outcome of interest was physician-c...

conclusions the relatively high prevalence of percutaneous injuries and splashes in this study emphasized the importance of improved prevention strategies, better hospital surveillance for occupational exposure, and enhanced training of healthcare workers. background healthcare workers (hcws) regularly face the risk of exposure to sharp injuries and splashes as an occupational hazard, which pre...

Background: The main object of this study was to determine the frequency of occupational categories of men who attended an infertility clinic, and to evaluate the differences in the semen quality parameters among occupational categories. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on men who attended the Infertility Clinic of Royan Institute, located in Tehran, Iran. The stu...

Lyme disease is the most common vector borne disease in the United States. Since the early 1980s, a large body of literature has evaluated the occupational risk of Lyme disease. The availability of a new vaccine to prevent Lyme disease makes it necessary for occupational health professionals to make decisions regarding the occupational risk of the disease among employees.