Objectives This is the first study to use real-life electronic medical record data from occupational health (OH) primary care to evaluate how often physicians assess and confirm diagnoses’ work ...

Objectives The manual coding of job descriptions is time-consuming, expensive and requires expert knowledge. Decision support systems (DSS) provide a valuable alternative by offering automated ...

Economic downturns are, unfortunately, a recurring feature of public life. Whether driven by inflationary shocks, fiscal consolidation, political ideology or post-crisis recalibration, austerity ...

Increases in trunk velocity during lifting are associated with improvements in disability and self-efficacy in people with chronic low back pain during cognitive functional therapy: a longitudinal ...

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Objectives To determine the impact of a 12-week ergonomic/exercise programme compared with an ergonomic/health education programme on the development of neck pain in office workers over 12 months.

Objectives To examine whether exposure to workplace stressors predicts changes in physical activity and the risk of insufficient physical activity. Methods Prospective data from the Finnish Public ...

Objectives A decreased ability to repair oxidative DNA damage, due to melatonin suppression, is a compelling mechanism by which night shift workers are at an increased risk of cancer. We sought to ...

The effects on health of prolonged but low level exposure to carbon monoxide (CO) are unclear. Studies of carbon monoxide exposure focus mainly on short term effects in experimental settings, or on ...

Objective To evaluate weight loss maintenance among truck drivers following an effective initial intervention and to test a priori hypotheses that social support and stress factors would moderate long ...

Conclusions Over the past few decades, low-income countries have experienced the most rapid growth in DALYs worldwide. A widening socio-economic disparity has persisted in the global burden of ONIHL, ...

Objectives To evaluate if adding motivational interviewing (MI) or a stratified vocational advice intervention (SVAI) to usual case management (UC), reduced sickness absence over 6 months for workers ...