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Defining worker well-being – experts propose new framework

Starting point for NIOSH efforts to improve occupational safety and health

August 9, 2018

How do we define and measure worker well-being? A proposed conceptual framework, with implications for future efforts to improve occupational safety and health, is presented in the July issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Fewer young people are using tobacco

Yet 3.6 million middle and high school students still use tobacco products

August 3, 2018

Fewer U.S. middle and high school students are using tobacco products – but too many still do, according to a new survey published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products.

AHA: Revamping CPR training could save many more lives

August 3, 2018

A pair of leading health care organizations think 50,000 lives a year can be saved by making changes to the way CPR is taught. The American Heart Association (AHA) and Laerdal Medical, a major, global medical equipment and medical training products manufacturer based in Norway, are campaigning for a new standard of resuscitation quality and patient care centered on CPR competence.

Four common workplace substances linked to prostate cancer

Jared Butt

August 2, 2018

A new Canadian study has linked four common hazardous substances to an aggressive form of early onset prostate cancer. The researchers from the University of Quebec studied nearly 2000 men who developed prostate cancer between 2005 and 2009.

What employers can do about opioid use among workers

August 2, 2018

Workplaces are not immune to the opioid epidemic in the U.S., which means employers are grappling with ways to manage and react to factors that affect their workforce and its health and productivity.

Suicide rates rising across the U.S.

August 1, 2018

Suicide rates have been rising in nearly every state, according to the latest Vital Signs report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2016, nearly 45,000 Americans age 10 or older died by suicide. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death and is one of just three leading causes that are on the rise.

A NIOSH Science Blog post

The Powerhouse: Students’ contributions towards expanding and improving occupational safety and health content in Wikipedia

Thais Morata PhD John P. Sadowski Max Lum Tania Carreón-Valencia Diana Ceballos Mary Beth Genter Emily Wakefield Deanna Meinke

August 1, 2018

The history and motivation behind the efforts NIOSH is putting into expanding and improving occupational safety and health in Wikipedia was discussed in earlier NIOSH Science Blogs (May 19,2015 and July 25, 2018) and thru the NIOSH January 2017 eNews.

Being overweight may change young adults’ heart structure, function

July 30, 2018

Even as a young adult, being overweight may cause higher blood pressure and thicken heart muscle, setting the stage for heart disease later in life, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s (AHA) journal Circulation.

Weekly news round-up

July 28, 2018

Contractor gets fined $250K in worker’s death, OSHA makes changes to electronic recordkeeping rule and New Yorkers found that they had more to fear than steam from a burst pipe in Manhattan. These were among the top stories featured on ISHN.com this week.

Black lung on the rise since 2000

July 27, 2018

After reaching a low point in the late 1990s, the national prevalence of coal worker’s pneumoconiosis (black lung) in miners with 25 years or more of tenure now exceeds 10 percent and in some areas is much higher than that, according to a study published in the American Public Health Association’s American Journal of Public Health.