Occupations

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 1-Hydroxypyrene concentrations in first morning voids and 24-h composite urine: intra- and inter-individual comparisons. 
  • A Way of Seeing: How Occupation Is Portrayed to Students When Taught as a Concept Beyond Its Use in Therapy. 
  • A comparison of methods for measuring socio-economic status by occupation or postal area. 
  • Accuracy of self-reports of fecal occult blood tests and test results among individuals in the carpentry trade. 
  • Age of marriage and length of the first birth interval in a traditional Indian society: life table and hazards model analysis. 
  • Ambition gone awry: the long-term socioeconomic consequences of misaligned and uncertain ambitions in adolescence. 
  • Associations among social support, income, and symptoms of depression in an educated sample: the UNC Alumni Heart Study. 
  • Behavioral determinants of mental illness concerns: a comparison of "gatekeeper" professions. 
  • Bladder cancer risk among auto and truck mechanics and chemically related occupations. 
  • Bladder cancer risk among laundry workers, dry cleaners, and others in chemically-related occupations. 
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome and its relationship with occupation and sex: from objective evaluation to patients' care. 
  • Childhood cancer and occupational radiation exposure in parents. 
  • Comparing questionnaire-based methods to assess occupational silica exposure. 
  • Continuities and consequences of interactional styles across the life course. 
  • Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease: Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of patients and families with sickle cell disease. 
  • Coronary heart disease in black Americans: suggestions for research on psychosocial factors. 
  • Demographic and occupational predictors of early response to a mailed invitation to enroll in a longitudinal health study. 
  • Determinants and consequences of retirement among men of different races and economic levels. 
  • Does occupation explain gender and other differences in work-related eye injury hospitalization rates? 
  • Economic Assimilation and Skill Acquisition: Evidence From the Occupational Sorting of Childhood Immigrants. 
  • Education, socioeconomic status, and ocular dimensions in Chinese adults: the Tanjong Pagar Survey. 
  • Effects of elevated lead and cadmium burdens on renal function and calcium metabolism. 
  • Effects of socioeconomic and clinical factors on survival in multiple myeloma. 
  • Factors associated with smokeless tobacco use and dual use among blue collar workers. 
  • Genetic analysis of social-class mobility in five longitudinal studies. 
  • Glutathione S-transferase GSTP1 and cyclin D1 genotypes: association with numbers of basal cell carcinomas in a patient subgroup at high-risk of multiple tumours. 
  • Health care utilization for musculoskeletal back disorders, Washington State union carpenters, 1989-2003. 
  • IQ in late adolescence/early adulthood, risk factors in middle age and later all-cause mortality in men: the Vietnam Experience Study. 
  • Increased lung cancer mortality among chrysotile asbestos textile workers is more strongly associated with exposure to long thin fibres. 
  • Influence of cognitive reserve on neuropsychological functioning in asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection. 
  • Long-term outcome of major psychoses. I. Schizophrenia and affective disorders compared with psychiatrically symptom-free surgical conditions. 
  • Low educational attainment, John Henryism, and cardiovascular reactivity to and recovery from personally relevant stress. 
  • Measures of social class based on education for use in health studies in developing countries. 
  • Occupational Attainment as Risk Factor for Progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease: A CREDOS Study. 
  • Occupational characteristics and cognitive performance among elderly male twins. 
  • Occupational determinants of cumulative lead exposure: analysis of bone lead among men in the VA normative aging study. 
  • Occupational impairment and disability among applicants for Social Security disability benefits in Pennsylvania. 
  • Occupational outcomes of adult childhood cancer survivors: A report from the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Outdoor smoking ban at a cancer center: attitudes and smoking behavior among employees and patients. 
  • Paternal occupation and birth defects: findings from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study. 
  • Personal exposure to particles in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. 
  • Prevalence of and racial differences in pterygium: a multiethnic population study in Asians. 
  • Racial disparities in diabetes a century ago: evidence from the pension files of US Civil War veterans. 
  • Respiratory diseases among union carpenters: cohort and case-control analyses. 
  • Retirement planning programs--at what age, and for whom? 
  • Socioeconomic status, John Henryism, and blood pressure in black adults. The Pitt County Study. 
  • The Relationship Between BMI and Work-Related Musculoskeletal (MSK) Injury Rates is Modified by Job-Associated Level of MSK Injury Risk. 
  • The contribution of sociodemographic, medical, and attitudinal factors to blood donation among the general public. 
  • The effect of a telephone family assessment intervention on the functional health of patients with elevated family stress. 
  • The effect of job strain on nighttime blood pressure dipping among men and women with high blood pressure. 
  • The epidemiology of ocular injury in a major US automobile corporation. 
  • The role of N-acetylation polymorphisms in smoking-associated bladder cancer: evidence of a gene-gene-exposure three-way interaction. 
  • The working retired. 
  • Undergraduate community psychology work-study programs: effects on self-actualization and vocational plans. 
  • Use of qualitative methods to map job tasks and exposures to occupational hazards for commercial fishermen. 
  • Wilms' tumor and paternal occupation. 
  • Work-related eye injuries among union carpenters. 
  • Worksite medical home: health services use and claim costs. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Humphreys, Margaret Ellen, Josiah Charles Trent Professor of the History of Medicine, in the School of Medicine, Duke Science & Society
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma