CAUSES AND MANAGEMENT OF STRESS AT WORK
Jan 1, 2002 · Stress has been defined in different ways over the years. Originally, it was conceived of as pressure from the environment, then as strain within the person. The generally accepted definition today is one of interaction between the situation and the individual. It is the psychological and physical state that results when the resources of the individual are not sufficient to cope with the ...
Authors | Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM)
Authors. Time to first decision with review (median): 71 days. Acceptance rate: 17%. Impact Factor (JCR): 3.9. Occupational and Environmental Medicine is an international peer reviewed journal covering current developments in occupational and environmental health worldwide. Occupational and Environmental Medicine publishes high-quality research ...
Fatigue at work - Occupational & Environmental Medicine
Fatigue is a common complaint in the working population. Approximately 20% of the working population report symptoms that fall under the concept of fatigue. 1 Other surveys have reported prevalence rates of fatigue varying from 7% to 45%, depending on the instruments used and the applied cut off points. 2 At first sight, the presence of fatigue in a working population does not give much reason ...
Effectiveness of psychological skills training for police personnel: a ...
There has been an increasing interest in primary prevention programmes developed to improve police officers’ mental health. This meta-analysis synthesised the existing findings on psychological skills training for police personnel including resilience training and mindfulness-based training. Particularly, this study systematically assessed the effectiveness of training programmes on mental ...
HEALTH PROMOTION IN THE WORKPLACE: FRAMING THE …
The term “health promotion in the workplace” is a multidimensional concept that embraces at least two major philosophies about what health is and how it is influenced. The first philosophy sees health as largely the product of individual behaviour and as an individual responsibility. It may acknowledge the role of genetics and environment to some …
Advancing global public health with occupational epidemiology
First and foremost, training and practical work environment occupational epidemiology contributes to experiences of occupational epidemi-public health by identifying the hazards to ologists as well as our close colleagues working people. This primary function of in occupational hygiene, occupational our field continues to be needed as new ...
Homepage | Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM)
4 days ago · OEM is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes high quality research relating to the full range of chemical, physical, ergonomic, biological and psychosocial hazards in the workplace and to environmental contaminants and their health effects. OEM is the official journal of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College ...
Confounding and confounders - Occupational & Environmental …
Mar 1, 2003 · Confounding should always be addressed in studies concerned with causality. When present, it results in a biased estimate of the effect of exposure on disease. The bias can be negative—resulting in underestimation of the exposure effect—or positive, and can even reverse the apparent direction of effect. It is a concern no matter what the design of the study or what statistic is used to ...
PHTHALATES AND HUMAN HEALTH - Occupational
The diesters of 1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid (phthalic acid), commonly known as phthalates, are a group of man-made chemicals with a wide spectrum of industrial applications (fig 1, table 1). High molecular weight phthalates (for example, di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate [DEHP], di-isononyl phthalate [DiNP], di-n-octyl phthalate [DnOP]), are primarily used as plasticizers in the manufacture of ...
Online First | Occupational & Environmental Medicine
Online First. October 29, 2024. Exposure assessment. Presence and concentration of lead in keys and keyring items. Benjamin Stroebel, Zaynab Rezania, Duzong Yang, Stephanie J Yendell. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2024-109726. October 15, 2024. Editorial.