Occupational Health

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Clawbacks". 
  • A methodology for assessing blast protection in explosive ordnance disposal bomb suits. 
  • A return-on-investment simulation model of workplace obesity interventions. 
  • ASE Statement on the Reintroduction of Echocardiographic Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Advanced head and neck surgery training during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Agreement between two methods for retrospective assessment of occupational exposure intensity to six chlorinated solvents: Data from The National Birth Defects Prevention Study. 
  • An evaluation of the professional, social and demographic profile and quality of life of physicians working at the Prehospital Emergency Medical System (SAMU) in Brazil. 
  • An integrated comprehensive occupational surveillance system for health care workers. 
  • An overview of the history and current status of clergy health. 
  • An urgent need to understand and address the safety and well-being of hospital "sitters". 
  • Assessment of physical risk factors for the shoulder using the Posture, Activity, Tools, and Handling (PATH) method in small-scale commercial crab pot fishing. 
  • Association Between Exercise Frequency and Health Care Costs Among Employees at a Large University and Academic Medical Center. 
  • Barriers to Engagement in a Workplace Weight Management Program: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Benefits, Facilitators, Barriers, and Strategies to Improve Pesticide Protective Behaviors: Insights from Farmworkers in North Carolina Tobacco Fields. 
  • Blood and body fluid exposure risks among health care workers: results from the Duke Health and Safety Surveillance System. 
  • Blood lead levels in incinerator workers. 
  • COVID-19 Epidemic Peer Support and Crisis Intervention Via Social Media. 
  • Certifying fitness for duty for high-functioning amputees: a review. 
  • Challenges in residential fall prevention: insight from apprentice carpenters. 
  • Changes in fall prevention training for apprentice carpenters based on a comprehensive needs assessment. 
  • Chiari type I malformations in young adults: implications for the college health practitioner. 
  • Cognitive functioning, aging, and work: A review and recommendations for research and practice. 
  • Comparative Effectiveness of Wellness Programs: Impact of Incentives on Healthcare Costs for Obese Enrollees. 
  • Comparison of current and past surgical smoke control practices. 
  • Compensation costs of work-related back disorders among union carpenters, Washington State 1989-2003. 
  • Computed tomography and radiation: understanding the issues. 
  • Continued progress in the prevention of nail gun injuries among apprentice carpenters: what will it take to see wider spread injury reductions? 
  • Cumulative Retrospective Exposure Assessment (REA) as a predictor of amphibole asbestos lung burden: validation procedures and results for industrial hygiene and pathology estimates. 
  • Declining rates of work-related overexertion back injuries among union drywall installers in Washington State, 1989-2008: Improved work safety or shifting of care? 
  • Depressive symptoms among working women in rural North Carolina: a comparison of women in poultry processing and other low-wage jobs. 
  • Depressive symptoms in women working in a poultry-processing plant: a longitudinal analysis. 
  • Development of the St. Louis audit of fall risks at residential construction sites. 
  • Disabling back injuries in nursing personnel. 
  • Education and health disparities: a macro, not micro, phenomenon. 
  • Effect of a total work-site smoking ban on employee smoking and attitudes. 
  • Effectiveness of OSHA Outreach Training on carpenters' work-related injury rates, Washington State 2000-2008. 
  • Effectiveness of activity trackers with and without incentives to increase physical activity (TRIPPA): a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Effectiveness of interventions to prevent work-related eye injuries. 
  • Effects of physical activity calorie expenditure (PACE) labeling: study design and baseline sample characteristics. 
  • Employee designation and health care worker support of an influenza vaccine mandate at a large pediatric tertiary care hospital. 
  • Establishing a research agenda in health and productivity. 
  • Evaluating ergonomic stresses in North Carolina commercial crab pot and gill net fishermen. 
  • Evidence and Recommendations on the Use of Telemedicine for the Management of Arterial Hypertension: An International Expert Position Paper. 
  • Extent and correlates of change in anthropometric and fitness outcomes among participants in a corporate team-based weight loss challenge in Singapore: lose to win 2009. 
  • Factors affecting workforce participation and healthy worker biases in U.S. women and men. 
  • Foreword and Introduction to This Issue on Contemporary Safety Topics in Animal Research. 
  • Guidance to employers on integrating e-cigarettes/electronic nicotine delivery systems into tobacco worksite policy. 
  • Hazardous Drugs: Legislative and Regulatory Efforts to Improve Safe Handling 
  • Health aspects of the North Carolina electronics industry. 
  • Health issues of female foreign domestic workers: a systematic review of the scientific and gray literature. 
  • How much have adverse occupational health outcomes among construction workers improved over time? Evidence from 25 years of medical screening. 
  • Humanistic Stories About the Workplace and Resident Wellness: a Missing Connection? 
  • Impact of Secondary Prevention in an Occupational High-Risk Group. 
  • Implementation and adoption of mechanical patient lift equipment in the hospital setting: The importance of organizational and cultural factors. 
  • Improving the System to Support Clinician Well-being and Provide Better Patient Care. 
  • Influence of a tobacco-free hospital campus policy on smoking status of hospital employees. 
  • Laboratory Animal Bite Anaphylaxis: A National Survey: Part 2: Treatment Protocols. 
  • Laboratory animal allergy: an update. 
  • Lead astray? 
  • Life at the Editorial "COVID Frontline". The American Thoracic Society Journal Family. 
  • Managing Research Animal Specimens and Laboratory Safety. 
  • Methods and baseline characteristics of two group-randomized trials with multiracial and multiethnic working-class samples. 
  • Mortality among North Carolina construction workers, 1988-1994. 
  • Mortality among sheet metal workers participating in a medical screening program. 
  • Musculoskeletal concerns do not justify failure to use safer sequential trigger to prevent acute nail gun injuries. 
  • Musculoskeletal injuries among hospital patient care staff before and after implementation of patient lift and transfer equipment. 
  • Nail gun injuries in apprentice carpenters: risk factors and control measures. 
  • Neonatal intensive care unit safety culture varies widely. 
  • New standards for safe patient handling and mobility. 
  • Non-fatal contact injuries among workers in the construction industry treated in U.S. emergency departments, 1998-2005. 
  • Non-reporting of work injuries and aspects of jobsite safety climate and behavioral-based safety elements among carpenters in Washington State. 
  • Nonfatal tool- or equipment-related injuries treated in US emergency departments among workers in the construction industry, 1998-2005. 
  • Objective measures of adoption of patient lift and transfer devices to reduce nursing staff injuries in the hospital setting. 
  • Occupational health issues in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. 
  • Occupational health issues of oral health care workers in Edo State, Nigeria. 
  • Occupational medicine programs for animal research facilities. 
  • Optimizing SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance in the United States: Insights From the National Football League Occupational Health Program. 
  • Organization of work in the agricultural, forestry, and fishing sector in the US southeast: implications for immigrant workers' occupational safety and health. 
  • Pathology of Asbestosis: An Update of the Diagnostic Criteria Response to a Critique. 
  • Perceived Barriers to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Among Participants in a Workplace Obesity Intervention. 
  • Perspectives of residential contractors on nail gun safety. 
  • Physical assault, physical threat, and verbal abuse perpetrated against hospital workers by patients or visitors in six U.S. hospitals. 
  • Physical pain and musculoskeletal discomfort in vascular surgeons. 
  • Physician Well-being. 
  • Physiological and behavioural response patterns at work among hospital nurses. 
  • Predictors of lost time from work among nursing personnel who sought treatment for back pain. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors associated with self-reported carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) among office workers in Kuwait. 
  • Prevalence of occupational injury and its contributing factors among rubber tappers in Galle, Sri Lanka. 
  • Pricing and promotion effects on low-fat vending snack purchases: the CHIPS Study. 
  • Protocol of a randomized controlled trial of the Tobacco Tactics website for operating engineers. 
  • Quality of occupational history assessments in working age adults with newly diagnosed asthma. 
  • Racial Capitalism Within Public Health-How Occupational Settings Drive COVID-19 Disparities. 
  • Refining the focus of construction injury surveillance. 
  • Respiratory health of automobile workers and exposures to metal-working fluid aerosols: lung spirometry. 
  • Results of a survey on current surgical smoke control practices. 
  • Return on Investment of Workplace Wellness Programs for Chronic Disease Prevention: A Systematic Review. 
  • Review of international criteria and mixture rules for health hazard classification. 
  • Safe Reintroduction of Cardiovascular Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From the North American Society Leadership. 
  • Safety of union home care aides in Washington State. 
  • Safety, incentives, and the reporting of work-related injuries among union carpenters: "you're pretty much screwed if you get hurt at work". 
  • Specific Considerations for Pediatric, Fetal, and Congenital Heart Disease Patients and Echocardiography Service Providers during the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: Council on Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Supplement to the Statement of the American Society of Echocardiography: Endorsed by the Society of Pediatric Echocardiography and the Fetal Heart Society. 
  • Statement on exercise: benefits and recommendations for physical activity programs for all Americans. A statement for health professionals by the Committee on Exercise and Cardiac Rehabilitation of the Council on Clinical Cardiology, American Heart Association. 
  • Steps to Health employee weight management randomized control trial: short-term follow-up results. 
  • Surveillance of musculoskeletal injuries and disorders in a diverse cohort of workers at a tertiary care medical center. 
  • Surveillance of nail gun injuries by journeymen carpenters provides important insight into experiences of apprentices. 
  • Systematic reviews of workplace injury interventions: what are we missing? 
  • Tailored e-mails in the workplace. 
  • Tailoring health programming to clergy: findings from a study of United Methodist clergy in North Carolina. 
  • Temporary Emergency Guidance to STEMI Systems of Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: AHA's Mission: Lifeline. 
  • The American College of Radiology Fluoroscopy Dose Index Registry Pilot: Technical Considerations and Dosimetric Performance of the Interventional Fluoroscopes. 
  • The Association between the Perceived Adequacy of Workplace Infection Control Procedures and Personal Protective Equipment with Mental Health Symptoms: A Cross-sectional Survey of Canadian Health-care Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: L'association entre le caractère adéquat perçu des procédures de contrôle des infections au travail et de l'équipement de protection personnel pour les symptômes de santé mentale. Un sondage transversal des travailleurs de la santé canadiens durant la pandémie COVID-19. 
  • The Clergy Occupational Distress Index (CODI): background and findings from two samples of clergy. 
  • The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire as a tool for benchmarking safety culture in the NICU. 
  • The characterization of airborne occupational safety and health hazards in selected small businesses; manufacturing wood pallets. 
  • The costs of obesity among full-time employees. 
  • The efficacy of influenza vaccination in healthcare workers in a tropical setting: a prospective investigator blinded observational study. 
  • The importance of observational methods for evaluation of interventions to prevent occupational injuries. 
  • The steps to health employee weight management randomized control trial: rationale, design and baseline characteristics. 
  • Three perspectives on work-related injury surveillance systems. 
  • Triage considerations for patients referred for structural heart disease intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic: An ACC/SCAI position statement. 
  • Ulnar Nerve Transection in an Orthopaedic Surgeon Sustained During Surgery: A Case Report and Commentary. 
  • Upper respiratory problems. 
  • Use of a randomized multiple baseline design: rationale and design of the spirited life holistic health intervention study. 
  • Vascular surgeon wellness and burnout: A report from the Society for Vascular Surgery Wellness Task Force. 
  • What Risk Factors Are Associated With Musculoskeletal Injury in US Army Rangers? A Prospective Prognostic Study. 
  • Work and home stress: associations with anxiety and depression symptoms. 
  • Work hazards and workplace safety violations experienced by adolescent construction workers. 
  • Work schedule and physically demanding work in relation to menstrual function: the Nurses' Health Study 3. 
  • Work-Related Determinants of Burnout in a Nationally Representative Sample of German Employees: Results From the Study on Mental Health at Work. 
  • Work-related falls among union carpenters in Washington State before and after the Vertical Fall Arrest Standard. 
  • Workplace Hazards Faced by Nursing Assistants in the United States: A Focused Literature Review. 
  • Workplace health promotion and safety in state and territorial health departments in the United States: a national mixed-methods study of activity, capacity, and growth opportunities. 
  • Worksite medical home: health services use and claim costs. 
  • Worksite physical activity breaks: Perspectives on feasibility of implementation. 
  • Young worker safety in construction: do family ties and workgroup size affect hazard exposures and safety practices? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Johnson, Candice Yang, Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Moon, Samuel David, Associate Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Ostbye, Truls, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Reiman Jr., Robert Ellis, Associate Professor of Radiology, Radiology
  • Walton, AnnMarie, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing