Table of contents

Original articles

Exposure assessment

• Original article: Comparison of exposure estimates in the Finnish job-exposure matrix FINJEM with a JEM derived from expert assessments performed in Montreal (1 April, 2012)

  Jérôme Lavoué, Javier Pintos, Martie Van Tongeren, Laurel Kincl, Lesley Richardson, T Kauppinen, Elisabeth Cardis, Jack Siemiatycki
• Original article: Livestock-associated MRSA ST398 carriage in pig slaughterhouse workers related to quantitative environmental exposure (27 April, 2012)

  Maarten J Gilbert, Marian E H Bos, Birgitta Duim, Bert A P Urlings, Lourens Heres, Jaap A Wagenaar, Dick J J Heederik

Workplace

• Original article: Determinants of early-stage hearing loss among a cohort of young workers with 16-year follow-up (23 March, 2012)

  Barbara Marlenga, Richard L Berg, James G Linneman, Douglas J Wood, Steven R Kirkhorn, William Pickett
• Original article: Physical workload, leisure-time physical activity, obesity and smoking as predictors of multisite musculoskeletal pain. A 2-year prospective study of kitchen workers (26 April, 2012)

  Eija Haukka, Anneli Ojajärvi, Esa-Pekka Takala, Eira Viikari-Juntura, Päivi Leino-Arjas
• Original article: Maternal occupational exposure to organic solvents during early pregnancy and risks of neural tube defects and orofacial clefts (23 March, 2012)

  Tania A Desrosiers, Christina C Lawson, Robert E Meyer, David B Richardson, Julie L Daniels, Martha A Waters, Edwin van Wijngaarden, Peter H Langlois, Paul A Romitti, Adolfo Correa, A Olshan, and the National Birth Defects Prevention Study
• Original article: The application of an occupational health guideline reduces sedentary behaviour and increases fruit intake at work: results from an RCT (1 March, 2012)

  Lisanne M Verweij, Karin I Proper, Andre N H Weel, Carel T J Hulshof, Willem van Mechelen

Environment

• Original article:

  Persistent respiratory symptoms in clean-up workers 5 years after the Prestige oil spill

  (26 April, 2012)

  Jan-Paul Zock, Gema Rodríguez-Trigo, Emma Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Aina Espinosa, Francisco Pozo-Rodríguez, Federico Gómez, Carme Fuster, Gemma Castaño-Vinyals, Josep M Antó, Joan A Barberà
• Original article: Epidemiologic investigation of an occupational illness of tobacco harvesters in southern Brazil, a worldwide leader in tobacco production (26 April, 2012)

  Patrícia Bartholomay, Betine Pinto Moehlecke Iser, Patrícia Pereira Vasconcelos de Oliveira, Tania Esther Herc Holmer dos Santos, Deborah Carvalho Malta, Jeremy Sobel, Lenildo de Moura