Diseases, occupational epidemiology

Efforts to incorporate SNP studies into environmental/occupational epidemiology investigations have focused on examining hypothesis-driven associations between exposures and specific polymorphisms. Most common human diseases such as asthma,... 

Epidemiology operates within the context of public health with a strong emphasis on the prevention of disease through the reduction of factors that may increase the likelihood that an individual or group will suffer a given disease. Implicit in the practice of epidemiology is the need for different disciplines in studying the influence of occupation on human health. 

Epidemiologic data come from many different sources. Acquiring reliable, accurate, and complete data describing occupational health problems is a key concern of the epidemiologist. A primary and continuing problem is the ascertainment of occupational disease. Ascertainment is the identification of diseases that are. in this case, of occupational origin. 

Landrigan, P.J., R.J.Castello, and W.T.Stringer. 1982. Occupational exposure to arsine. An epidemiologic reappraisal of current standards. Scand. J. Work Environ. Health. 8 169-177. Legge, T.M. 1916. Arsenic poisoning. In Diseases of Occupations and Vocational Hygiene, G.M.Kober and W.Hanson, eds. Philadelphia, PA Blakiston. 

Recent (1990-2005) Epidemiologic Studies of Occupational Silica Exposure and Risk of Autoimmune Diseases... 

Measures of the public health importance of a disease include the absolute number of cases, the incidence rate, the prevalence (rate), the economic impact of the disease, and the prognosis and preventability of the disease.65 Contact dermatitis is the most common occupational and environmental skin disease. Epidemiologic data show that contact dermatitis comprises 90 to 95% of all occupational skin diseases. 

Biostatistics and Epidemiology Branch Health Effects Laboratory Division National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... 

Landrigan PJ, Kteiss K, Xintaras C, et al. 1980. Clinical epidemiology of occupational neurotoxic disease. Neurobehav Toxicol 2(l) 43-48. 

Occupational physicians, Pott among them, contributed greatly to the development of the modern science of epidemiology - the systematic study of how diseases are distributed in human populations and of the factors that cause or contribute to them. Epidemiology is an important modern science, and its application, as we shall see, can provide the most significant data obtainable about the toxic effects of chemicals. 

Gordis, L. (2000) Epidemiology, 2nd edn. Philadelphia, W. B. Sanders. Hueper, W. (1942) Occupational Tumors and Allied Diseases. Springfield, IL, C. C. Thomas. 

Lemen RA. 1986. Occupationally induced lung cancer epidemiology. In Merchant JA, ed. Occupational respiratory diseases. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 629-656. 

Health effects studies, such as epidemiological studies, utilizing employee health records require that the records be complete, well maintained, and readily accessible, and that they contain comparable information. These requirements apply to records for all sites. Therefore, automation and centralization of the records is practically a necessity. Records from multiple CSDP sites with multiple contractors at each site may be kept in a variety of forms and according to a variety of procedures. Standardized forms and procedures for all sites would ensure that records could be used for health effects studies. Epidemiological studies on occupation-ally related diseases are most meaningful when employee exposure data are available for correlation with the health data. Complete, high-quality health and... 

Epidemiology Discipline of science studying the distribution of disease, or other health-related states and events in human populations, as related to age, gender, occupation, ethnicity, and economic status to identify and alleviate health problems and promote better health. 

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