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  3. Inpatient satisfaction, job satisfaction/stress of medical workers, and hospital profitability under the 7:1 nursing care system (in which 1 nurse cares for 7 patients at a time) were compared with those under...

    Authors: Yuko Fujimura, Hideji Tanii and Kiyofumi Saijoh
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 16:174
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2011 16:s12199-011-0226-x

  4. Management of job satisfaction is of growing importance in terms of the maintenance of employees’ health. This study aimed to evaluate which and to what extent facets of job satisfaction contributed to global ...

    Authors: Takashi Tatsuse and Michikazu Sekine
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 16:173
    Content type: Short Communication Published on:

  5. This review deals with environmental home inspection services in Western Europe provided for patients at the request of attending physicians to improve patient management. Such requests are usually motivated b...

    Authors: Denis Charpin, Ralph Baden, Valérie Bex, Sandrine Bladt, Carmel Charpin-Kadouch, Catherine Keimeul, Pedro da Mata, Frédéric de Blay, Martyna Kuske, Yvon Le Moullec, Alain Nicolas, Martine Ott, Roger Marc, Chrisbelle Speyer, Daniel Vervloet and Fabien Squinazi
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 16:171
    Content type: Review Published on:

  6. Although the importance of stretching exercise for pain-relieving and patient education is well documented for chronic lumbago patients, it is uncertain how effective on-the-job training (OJT) is for female ca...

    Authors: Hiroharu Kamioka, Hiroyasu Okuizumi, Shinpei Okada, Ryosuke Takahashi, Shuichi Handa, Jun Kitayuguchi and Yoshiteru Mutoh
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 16:170
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  7. To clarify the difference in health-promoting lifestyles between agricultural and non-agricultural workers in Japan, a cross-sectional study was conducted on 627 residents living in a town with a mixed rural–u...

    Authors: Shi-chen Zhang, Chang-nian Wei, Kumiko Fukumoto, Koichi Harada, Kimiyo Ueda, Keiko Minamoto and Atsushi Ueda
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 16:167
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  9. Both genetic and lifestyle factors have been shown to influence bone mineral density (BMD). We investigated the correlations between BMD and low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 5 (LRP5) A1330V (rs373...

    Authors: Yayoi Funakoshi, Hisamitsu Omori, Hironori Yada and Takahiko Katoh
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 16:172
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  11. Self-reporting provides useful information for assessing the risk factors of osteoporotic fractures in large cohort studies. However, to data, no studies in Japan have confirmed the accuracy of this approach i...

    Authors: Kazutoshi Nakamura, Manami Inoue, Yoshikazu Kaneko and Shoichiro Tsugane
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 16:166
    Content type: Short Communication Published on:

  12. To evaluate the pertinent cutoffs of waist circumference (WC) and the discriminatory performance of other anthropometric indices to detect clustering cardiovascular risk factors for metabolic syndrome (MetS) i...

    Authors: Kazuyo Nakamura, Hinako Nanri, Megumi Hara, Yasuki Higaki, Takeshi Imaizumi, Naoto Taguchi, Tatsuhiko Sakamoto, Mikako Horita, Koichi Shinchi and Keitaro Tanaka
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 16:165
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  13. The objective of this study was to assess the relation between temperature and suicide mortality in Japan using time series analysis with a semiparametric approach.

    Authors: Victoria Likhvar, Yasushi Honda and Masaji Ono
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 16:163
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  14. It has been postulated that air-borne fine water particles (or mist) can induce asthma attacks in asthmatic children. To date, no attempt has been made to quantify the density of air-borne fine water particles...

    Authors: Kazuo Kanaya, Koji Okamoto, Shinichiro Shimbo and Masayuki Ikeda
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 16:164
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  15. Healthy Japan 21 (Japanese National Health Promotion in the 21st Century) was started in 2000 to promote extension of healthy life expectancy and improve health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The present stu...

    Authors: Ai Fujikawa, Takeshi Suzue, Fumihiko Jitsunari and Tomohiro Hirao
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 16:162
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  16. Aluminum is notorious as a neurotoxic metal. The aim of our study was to determine whether endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is involved in aluminum-induced apoptosis in astrocytes.

    Authors: David A. Aremu, Ojeiru F. Ezomo and Shunsuke Meshitsuka
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 16:161
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  17. The World Health organization received reports of 478 laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza A (H5N1) from 15 countries between November 2003 and February 2010. More than 50% of these cases involved patients ...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Furuya, Shoji Kawachi, Mika Shigematsu, Kazuo Suzuki and Tetsu Watanabe
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 16:158
    Content type: Short Communication Published on:

  18. The soil of a residential area in Tokyo was found to contain dioxins, namely polychlorinated dioxins, furans, and dioxin-like biphenyls, the levels of which exceeded the environmental guideline [1,000 pg toxic...

    Authors: Chiharu Tohyama, Iwao Uchiyama, Shuji Hoshi, Masaki Hijiya, Hideaki Miyata, Masaki Nagai, Satoshi Nakai, Mariko Yauchi and Satsuki Ohkubo
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 16:156
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  20. This study aimed to summarize the major health problems among Chinese workers, the strategies and measures for occupational hazards control, the network and organizations of occupational health administration,...

    Authors: Xueyan Zhang, Zhongxu Wang and Tao Li
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:145
    Content type: Review Published on:

  22. The β3-Adrenergic receptor gene polymorphism Trp64Arg (ADRB3 Trp64Arg) may be associated with weight gain, especially in the East Asian populations. To date, however, the results of various investigations aime...

    Authors: Aya Tahara, Yoneatsu Osaki and Takuji Kishimoto
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:157
    Content type: Short Communication Published on:

  25. Many epidemiological studies have demonstrated that body mass index (BMI) is associated with the risk of developing age-related cataracts. These reports have suggested that high and low BMIs can affect the ons...

    Authors: Masao Yoshida, Manami Inoue, Motoki Iwasaki and Shoichiro Tsugane
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:153
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  26. Although rapid childhood weight gain has been suggested to be a risk factor for lifetime obesity and other chronic diseases, few studies have been conducted in Asian populations. The aim of this study was, the...

    Authors: Mari Oyama, Toshiko Saito and Kazutoshi Nakamura
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:152
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  27. The objective of this study was to identify associations in the prevalence of overweight, obesity and high blood pressure between children and their parents, as well as their eating and physical patterns.

    Authors: Arely Vergara-Castañeda, Lilia Castillo-Martínez, Eloisa Colín-Ramírez and Arturo Orea-Tejeda
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:151
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  28. The maintenance of infectivity of influenza viruses on the surfaces of personal protective equipment and clothing is an important factor in terms of controlling viral cross-infection in the environment and pre...

    Authors: Hiroko Sakaguchi, Koji Wada, Jitsuo Kajioka, Mayumi Watanabe, Ryuichi Nakano, Tatsuko Hirose, Hiroshi Ohta and Yoshiharu Aizawa
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:149
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  29. Vietnamese patients’ views on healthcare are changing as surgical interventions become more commonplace, but their views on perioperative care have remained largely unstudied during this period of rapid change...

    Authors: Kumiko Soejima, Aya Goto, Phan Ton Ngoc Vu, Le Huu Thien Bien, Nguyen Quang Vinh, Pham Nghiem Minh, Gautam A. Deshpande, Seiji Yasumura and Akira Fukao
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:148
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  30. The aim of this study was to evaluate aerobic exercise levels, expressed in terms of ventilatory threshold (VT), in a Japanese population and explore the relationship between VT and exercise habits in this pop...

    Authors: Nobuyuki Miyatake, Motohiko Miyachi, Izumi Tabata, Noriko Sakano, Takeshi Suzue, Tomohiro Hirao and Takeyuki Numata
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:147
    Content type: Short Communication Published on:

  31. The environmental pollutant 2-nitrotoluene (2-NO2-T) is carcinogenic and reproductively toxic in animals. In this study, we elucidated the mechanisms of its carcinogenicity and reproductive toxicity.

    Authors: Chigusa Watanabe, Takashi Egami, Kaoru Midorikawa, Yusuke Hiraku, Shinji Oikawa, Shosuke Kawanishi and Mariko Murata
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:146
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  32. To investigate the impact of information on foodborne disease on consumers, we quantified consumers’ anxiety, purchasing behaviors, and willingness-to-pay (WTP) in response to the reading of newspaper articles...

    Authors: Kumiko Ogoshi, Hideo Yasunaga, Naoya Obana, Toshio Ogawa and Tomoaki Imamura
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:144
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  33. The Noto Peninsula earthquake struck the coast of the Noto Peninsula, Japan on March 25, 2007, resulting in the death of one woman and injury to 356 people. A total of 684 houses were totally destroyed by this...

    Authors: Naomi Sekizuka, Akemi Sakai, Kouya Aoyama, Takafumi Kohama, Yukio Nakahama, Satoko Fujita, Yuri Hibino, Yoshiaki Hitomi, Yasuhiro Kambayashi and Hiroyuki Nakamura
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:142
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  34. To examine if the non-expression of negative emotions (i.e., repressive coping) and differences in the ability to process and regulate emotions (i.e., alexithymia) is associated with idiopathic environmental i...

    Authors: Sine Skovbjerg, Robert Zachariae, Alice Rasmussen, Jeanne Duus Johansen and Jesper Elberling
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:143
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  36. The health of an individual is influenced by many factors. These could include factors that are related to the economy and the environment, as well as social and biological factors. Many studies have been carr...

    Authors: Ferra Yanuar, Kamarulzaman Ibrahim and Abdul Aziz Jemain
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:140
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  39. We investigated dampness/mold in schools and dwellings, and food habits and subjective symptoms in elementary school pupils, in order to clarify the effect of dampness and food habits on subjective symptoms in...

    Authors: Yasuaki Saijo, Yoshihiko Nakagi, Toshihiro Ito, Yoshihiko Sugioka, Hitoshi Endo and Takahiko Yoshida
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:139
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  40. The application of geographic information systems (GIS) to describe commute route elements is commonplace, yet the accuracy of GIS-estimated commute routes is not clear. This study compared GIS-estimated commu...

    Authors: Hannah M. Badland, Mitch J. Duncan, Melody Oliver, J. Scott Duncan and Suzanne Mavoa
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:138
    Content type: Short Communication Published on:

  41. The objectives of this study were to assess the knowledge and practices associated with pesticide use in an agricultural community in Palestine, and to determine the prevalence of self-reported health symptoms re...

    Authors: Sa’ed H. Zyoud, Ansam F. Sawalha, Waleed M. Sweileh, Rahmat Awang, Suleiman I. Al-Khalil, Samah W. Al-Jabi and Nihaia M. Bsharat
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:136
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  42. The size of the market for counterfeit drugs throughout the world is considerable. Many cases of health impairment due to counterfeits have been reported. The market share of counterfeits in drug markets in de...

    Authors: Minoru Sugita and Michiko Miyakawa
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:134
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  43. Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is an established concept. However, it is characterized by a number of different definitions as well as different cut-off points (COPs) for waist circumference (WC) and different mode...

    Authors: Kiyoshi Shibata, Sadao Suzuki, Juichi Sato, Isao Ohsawa, Shinichi Goto, Masaru Hashiguchi and Shinkan Tokudome
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:132
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  44. Pathophysiological mechanisms and pathways linking cardiovascular mortality and morbidity with air pollution were recently hypothesized. The present study evaluated association between air pollution and change...

    Authors: Gholamreza Davoodi, Ahmad Yamini Sharif, Ali Kazemisaeid, Saeed Sadeghian, Ali Vasheghani Farahani, Mehrdad Sheikhvatan and Mina Pashang
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:130
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  45. Indoor air pollution levels are reported to be higher with biomass fuel, and a number of respiratory diseases in children are associated with pollution from burning such fuel. However, little is known about th...

    Authors: Md. Khalequzzaman, Michihiro Kamijima, Kiyoshi Sakai, Bilqis Amin Hoque and Tamie Nakajima
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:133
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  46. We explored the relationship between bone mineral density (BMD) and lifestyle in juveniles to identify factors leading to higher peak bone mass and prevention of osteoporosis in later life.

    Authors: Yoshihiko Nakagi, Toshihiro Ito, Kenzo Hirooka, Yoshihiko Sugioka, Hitoshi Endo, Yasuaki Saijo, Hirohisa Imai, Hidekatsu Takeda, Fujio Kayama, Satoshi Sasaki and Takahiko Yoshida
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:131
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  47. The level of cotinine in biological specimens, such as serum, urine, and saliva, measured by gas or liquid chromatography is the most validated and reliable indicator of exposure to tobacco smoke. However, chr...

    Authors: Akiko Matsumoto, Toshihiro Ino, Mitsuhiro Ohta, Tetsuya Otani, Sachiko Hanada, Atsushi Sakuraoka, Akane Matsumoto, Masayoshi Ichiba and Megumi Hara
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:129
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  48. Malignant tumors carry a high risk of death, and the prevention of malignant tumors is a crucial issue in preventive medicine. To this end, many chemopreventive agents have been tested, but the effects of sing...

    Authors: Tatsushi Yoshida, Mano Horinaka and Toshiyuki Sakai
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2010 15:128
    Content type: Review Published on:

  49. The aim of this work is to investigate the association between transfusion history and cancer mortality in a prospective follow-up study.

    Authors: Yusuke Inoue, Yasuhiko Wada, Yutaka Motohashi and Akio Koizumi
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:125
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  50. Very few epidemiologic studies on bone fracture have been conducted in schools for handicapped children (Yogo schools). The aim of this study was to clarify the frequency and risk factors of bone fracture in phys...

    Authors: Keiko Maruyama, Kazutoshi Nakamura, Mitsue Nashimoto, Fukumi Kitamoto, Mari Oyama, Yasuo Tsuchiya and Masaharu Yamamoto
    Citation: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2009 15:121
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