Current Topics in Occupational Epidemiology

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First edition. Increased morbidity and mortality among coal workers: lessons learned from well-designed epidemiological research programmes / Judith M. Graber, Robert A. Cohen, Brian G. Miller, and Leslie T. Stayner -- Microbial resistance in livestock farming: occupational and public health concerns / Dick Heederik, Marian Bos, and Wietske Dohmen -- The search for environmental risk factors for Parkinson disease / Harvey Checkoway, Susan Searles Nielsen, and Brad A. Racette -- Infectious pneumonia in workers exposed to metal fume / Keith T. Palmer and David Coggon -- Retinal detachment and occupational lifting: rediscovering lost knowledge / Stefano Mattioli, Stefania Curti, Andrea Farioli, and Francesco S. Violante -- What is the impact on mental health and well-being of military service in general and deployment in particular? A UK perspective / Nicola T. Fear, Josefin Sundin, and Simon Wessely -- Methodological considerations in the epidemiology of work-related health problems in migrants / Elena Ronda, Emily Felt, Marc Schenker, and Fernando G. Benavides -- Epidemiological studies of older workers: research questions and methodological challenges / Harry S. Shannon -- Who returns to work after sick leave and why? Implications for the effectiveness of interventions for musculoskeletal disorders / Alex Burdorf -- Unemployment at a young age and future unemployment, sickness absence, disability pension, and death in Sweden / Magnus Helgesson, Bo Johansson, Ingvar Lundberg, and Eva Vingård -- What do surveillance schemes tell us abuot the epidemiology of occupational disease? / Raymond Agius, Malcolm R. Sim, and Vincent Bonneterre -- Investigating outbreaks of occupational asthma / Katherine M. Venables -- Occupational risk factors in lung cancer: pooling community-based case-control studies for enhanced evidence / Hans Kromhout, Ann Olsson, Susan Peters, and Kurt Straif -- Systematic reviews of occupational safety and health topics / Jos Verbeek and Sharea Ijaz -- Estimating the burden of occupational disease / Lesley Rushton, Sally Hutchings, and Tim Driscoll -- Biologically based exposure assessment for epidemiology / Thomas J. Smith and David Kriebel -- Why we should be Bayesians (and often already are without realizing it) / Neil Pearce and Marine Corbin -- Basic principles of economic evaluation of occupational health and safety interventions / Oliver Rivero-Arias, Sue Jowett, and Marjolein de Weerd -- Risk assessment for chemical and physical agents: how does occupational epidemiology contribute? / David Coggon.