Recently added articles from Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health:
The peer-review process and its relationship with environmental and occupational health.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Peer review of journal articles is now the norm in virtually all scientific disciplines. (1) The art of peer review has advanced over the years, and scientific publishing has embraced new thinking. In this editorial, we explore the basics of peer review and options for improving the ...
Street corner hazard surveillance and health intervention among Chicago day laborers.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Day labor in Chicago, as in other cities in the United States, is a growing economic phenomenon. Workers who wait on street corners or in parking lots to be picked up by contractors are often immigrants with few job skills and are sending money to families back home. Results from the ...
Vision problems, eye care history, and ocular protection among migrant farmworkers.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Workplace injuries to the eye occur at an annual rate of 3.8/10,000 US workers because of unintentional injuries; exposure to chemicals, dust, and infectious agents; and exposure to ultraviolet (UV) and other radiation. (1) Agricultural workers are at even greater risk of eye injury and ...
Perinatal mortality and residential proximity to an industrial park.
Mar 22, 2008; ... The high sensitivity of the developing human organism to environmental xenobiotics has become increasingly evident, as has concern about the impact of exposure to ambient air pollution on fetal and infant health. (1-8) Perinatal mortality (PM), which represents a significant multi-issue ...
Investigation of road-traffic noise and annoyance in Beijing: a cross-sectional study of 4th Ring Road.(Survey)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Traffic noise tends to be a dominant source of noise in urban areas. Most of today's research on noise control is focused on noise from transportation of urban traffic. Researchers have already written a certain amount of literature on the subject of the various effects of traffic noise on ...
The funny-looking B.(Expected & Observed)(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Scientists must be precise. They must do things correctly. They must present the data accurately. They have to communicate clearly. But every once in a while, a little error creeps in--the unnoticed benign mistake--that demonstrates that scientists are human and maybe should loosen up a ...
Health benefits for women staying with their husbands during a long-term trip to a hot springs spa.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Traveling to another place for a vacation represents a complete change from everyday life--which is often stressful--but scientific researchers have yet to document any beneficial health effects. In previous research, (1) using salivary cortisol and chromogranin A (CgA) as endocrinological ...
Cockroach infestation on seagoing ships.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Cockroaches were originally tropical insects; however, international freight transports from the tropics have spread cockroaches all over the world. Now, they are present especially in warm and damp areas of private dwellings and in public buildings of most Western countries, especially in ...
Traditional knowledge: challenge or complement to science?(Editorial)(Editorial)
Dec 22, 2007; ... Science is the means by which we in environmental and occupational health study a problem and determine truth. There are, however, other bodies of knowledge. Among these are observations that have accumulated over centuries, even millennia, and are based on humans' intense focus on natural ...
The short-term influence of weather on daily mortality in congestive heart failure.(Report)
Dec 22, 2007; ... Extreme weather conditions have been shown to increase daily mortality. (1) For example, the heat wave in Europe during the summer of 2003 resulted in over 22,000 excess deaths in France, Italy, Great Britain, and Spain. (2-5) These figures may be underestimates, as not all heat-related ...
Contrast sensitivity in occupational and environmental neurotoxicology: what does it really mean?(Report)
Dec 22, 2007; ... The Snellen chart, consisting of rows of letters or other symbols of decreasing size, has been used to assess visual acuity for more than 150 years. (1) Although effective for measuring visual acuity, this test cannot detect loss of visual function, such as the vision loss at low spatial ...
Past occupational exposure to lead: association between current blood lead and bone lead.(Brief Communication)(Report)
Dec 22, 2007; ... Neurotoxic effects of lead have been documented for more than a century. Although levels that constitute "safe" exposure (eg, permissible exposure limits) have been revised downward in the recent past, lead exposure continues to be widespread in the United States, with more than 1.4 ...
Magnetic field exposure in a nondestructive testing operation.
Dec 22, 2007; ... Nondestructive testing (NDT) is a technique widely used to examine a machine part without diminishing the part's future usefulness. NDT can be a simple visual inspection or a more complex procedure such as acoustic or x-ray inspection. Virtually every machine part is inspected through NDT, ...
Water, water everywhere.
Dec 22, 2007; ... Morris RD. The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink. New York: Harper Collins; 2007. Troesken W. The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 2006. As a risk management consultant to the District of Columbia's water utility, I tend ...
Adverse reactions associated with respirator fit testing of healthcare workers in British Columbia, Canada: a review of compensation claim cases.(Brief Communication)(Report)
Dec 22, 2007; ... During the coronavirus SARS outbreak in Toronto, Canada, in early 2003, a significant proportion of the afflicted individuals were healthcare workers (HCWs) who contracted this serious respiratory tract infection from their patients. (1) This incident clearly demonstrated the vulnerability ...
Fatality after a single dermal application of Lindane lotion.(Case Report)(Report)
Dec 22, 2007; ... Lindane (gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane) is a potent organochlorine insecticide that has been used in agriculture in the United States and throughout the world. The target organ of toxicity for lindane is the central nervous system, and adverse effects from overexposure can include altered ...
Tips for the new teacher.(Expected & Observed)
Sep 22, 2007; ... In planning your presentation, remember that just as many people learn best by seeing as by hearing. Your best opportunity to get your message through to everyone in your audience is to write every essential concept on the slide and also to say it out loud. Start by deciding ...
Health evaluation of gold miners living in a mercury-contaminated village in Serra Pelada, Para, Brazil.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Exposure to different forms of mercury has been linked to adverse health effects that mainly affect the central nervous system and kidneys. (1) The Minamata tragedy in Japan, when more than 2,000 people were affected and 1,000 died after consuming mercury-contaminated fish, showed the ...
Gu Xueqi (1911-2007).(Obituary)(Obituary)
Sep 22, 2007 ... The Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health is saddened to report the death of Dr Gu Xueqi at the age of 96. Dr Gu was a towering world figure in occupational health. He shaped the field in modern China and established Shanghai Medical University as a leading center for research, ...
Cigarette smoking and the risk of adult leukemia: results from the three Mile Island cohort study.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Benzene, a well-established carcinogen and leukemogen, typically has been associated with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) over the past century, (1,2) and reports have established its presence in cigarette smoke. Wallace (3) observed that approximately 90% of personal exposure to benzene in ...