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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Lifecourse socio-economic mobility and oral health in middle age.

29 Sep 2009 Socio-economic variations in health exist for a wide range of health outcomes, including oral health and oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQoL). Less is known regarding how socio-economic trajectories may influence oral health and OHRQoL. This ... Read more...

Etiology of work-related electrical injuries: a narrative analysis of workers' compensation claims.

29 Sep 2009 The purpose of this study was to provide new insight into the etiology of primarily nonfatal, work-related electrical injuries. We developed a multistage, case-selection algorithm to identify electrical-related injuries from workers' compensation ... Read more...

On universality in human correspondence activity.

23 Sep 2009 The identification and modeling of patterns of human activity have important ramifications for applications ranging from predicting disease spread to optimizing resource allocation. Because of its relevance and availability, written correspondence ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Occupations'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Lifecourse socio-economic mobility and oral health in middle age. 29 Sep 2009
• Etiology of work-related electrical injuries: a narrative analysis of workers' compensation claims. 29 Sep 2009
• On universality in human correspondence activity. 23 Sep 2009
• Nonfatal work-related motor vehicle injuries treated in emergency departments in the United States, 1998-2002. 30 Aug 2009
• The role of occupational complexity in trajectories of cognitive aging before and after retirement. 30 Aug 2009
• Appointments failure among female patients at a dental school clinic in Saudi Arabia. 30 Aug 2009
• Estimation and validation of biomarker-based exposures for historical ammonium perfluorooctanoate. 30 Aug 2009
• Assessing the contribution of unstable employment to mortality in posttransition Russia: prospective individual-level analyses from the Russian longitudinal monitoring survey. 18 Aug 2009
• Revisiting brain reserve hypothesis in frontotemporal dementia: evidence from a brain perfusion study. 16 Aug 2009
• Sickness absence: could gender divide be explained by occupation, income, mental distress and health? 9 Aug 2009
• The influence of strength and power on muscle endurance test performance. 30 Jul 2009
• Do immigrants work in riskier jobs? 30 Jul 2009
• Occupational physical activity and risk of malignant melanoma: the Western Canada Melanoma Study. 30 Jul 2009
• Playing a brass instrument after total laryngectomy: a case report. 30 Jul 2009
• An integrated job exposure matrix for electrical exposures of utility workers. 30 Jul 2009
• Consent for use of personal information for health research: do people with potentially stigmatizing health conditions and the general public differ in their opinions? 22 Jul 2009
• [Inactivation of the intracardial cardioverter/defibrillator (ICD) antitachycardial function in dilated cardiomyopathy. Driver can again work in her occupation] 21 Jul 2009
• Social inequality in physical and mental health comorbidity dynamics. 19 Jul 2009
• Education, occupation, and dementia: the Bavarian school sisters study. 6 Jul 2009
• Toxoplasmosis among pregnant women in France: risk factors and change of prevalence between 1995 and 2003. Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Occupations'

Definition: Crafts, trades, professions, or other means of earning a living.

Descriptor UI: D009790

Alternative terms: Occupations; Occupation; Vocations; Vocation;

Related Mesh Headings: Health Occupations; Occupational Groups; Workplace;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N01.824.547;

Online Note: use OCCUPATIONS to search OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS 1966-67

History Note: 68; was OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS 1963-67

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif; OCCUPATIONS are not necessarily "industrial"; differentiate from OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS: OCCUPATIONS is for the occup itself, OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS is for the collective members of an occup; relation to INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE (see OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE) & OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES: Manual 31.13-31.16; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL is available; DF: OCCUP