Research Roundup
A study of strategies for preventing hand eczema among
health care workers performing wet work has commenced
in three hospitals in the Netherlands. (“Hands4U: A multifac-
eted strategy to implement guideline-based recommenda-
tions to prevent hand eczema in health care workers,” BMC
Public Health, www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-
2458-11-669.pdf.)
Young people who work more than 50 hours a week are
twice as likely to develop alcohol-related problems as unemployed workers, suggests a study published online by
the journal Addiction (“Working hours and alcohol problems in
early adulthood,” abstract available at http://onlinelibrary.
wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03543.x/abstract).
Air toxins breathed by cleanup workers following the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill were well below harmful levels, according to a study published in September by
Environmental Science and Toxicology (“Analysis and Modeling of
Airborne BTEX Concentrations from the Deepwater Horizon
Oil Spill”).
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