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"Dirty electricity": what, where, and should we care?

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A Bayesian mixture modeling approach for assessing the effects of correlated exposures in case-control studies

scientific article published on 16 May 2012

A case-control study of lung cancer nested in a cohort of European asphalt workers

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A comparison of population air pollution exposure estimation techniques with personal exposure estimates in a pregnant cohort

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A database of exposures in the rubber manufacturing industry: design and quality control

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A multicentre study of air pollution exposure and childhood asthma prevalence: the ESCAPE project

scientific article published on 16 October 2014

A review of Grey and academic literature of evaluation guidance relevant to public health interventions

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

A review of job-exposure matrix methodology for application to workers exposed to radiation from internally deposited plutonium or other radioactive materials

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A systematic review protocol examining workplace interventions that aim to improve employee health and wellbeing in male-dominated industries

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

Acute neurobehavioral effects of exposure to static magnetic fields: analyses of exposure-response relations

scientific article published in March 2006

Adult Cancers Near High-voltage Power Lines

Agreement of experts and non-experts in a desktop exercise evaluating exposure to asthmagens in the cotton and textile, and other industries

scientific article published on 16 October 2014

Air pollution and respiratory infections during early childhood: an analysis of 10 European birth cohorts within the ESCAPE Project

scientific article published on 22 October 2013

An Assessment of Radiation-Associated Risks of Mortality from Circulatory Disease in the Cohorts of Mayak and Sellafield Nuclear Workers.

scientific article published in March 2018

Analyses of temporal and spatial patterns of glioblastoma multiforme and other brain cancer subtypes in relation to mobile phones using synthetic counterfactuals

scientific article published on 17 October 2018

Application of PUF foam inserts for respirable dust measurements in the brick-manufacturing industry

scientific article published on 31 October 2008

Assessing the contribution of alcohol-specific causes to socio-economic inequalities in mortality in England and Wales 2001-16

scientific article published on 31 March 2020

Assessing the feasibility of using place-based health information in alcohol licensing: case studies from seven local authorities in England

scientific article published in 2022

Assessment of Offspring DNA Methylation across the Lifecourse Associated with Prenatal Maternal Smoking Using Bayesian Mixture Modelling.

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Assessment of dermal exposure to bitumen condensate among road paving and mastic crews with an observational method

scientific article published on 19 May 2011

Authors' reply to Kundi's comments on de Vocht et al. “time trends (1998-2007) in brain cancer incidence rates in relation to mobile phone use in England”

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Bayesian mixture modeling of gene-environment and gene-gene interactions

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Bayesian modelling of lung cancer risk and bitumen fume exposure adjusted for unmeasured confounding by smoking

scientific article published on 5 December 2008

Behavior Change Techniques Used in Digital Behavior Change Interventions to Reduce Excessive Alcohol Consumption: A Meta-regression

article by Claire V Garnett et al published 27 January 2018 in Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Biomarkers of exposure in environment-wide association studies – Opportunities to decode the exposome using human biomonitoring data

scientific article published in July 2018

British rubber and cable industry cohort: 49-year mortality follow-up

scientific article published on 29 September 2018

Building a job-exposure matrix for early plutonium workers at the Sellafield nuclear site, United Kingdom

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

Cancer mortality and occupational exposure to aromatic amines and inhalable aerosols in rubber tire manufacturing in Poland

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Cell Phones and Parotid Cancer Trends in England

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Cognitive effects of head-movements in stray fields generated by a 7 Tesla whole-body MRI magnet

scientific article published on May 2007

Comment on Choi, Y.-J., et al. Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. 2020, , 8079

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Comment on: Effects of static magnetic fields on cognition, vital signs, and sensory perception: A meta-analysis

article published in 2011

Comments on "Maternal exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields: Association with time to pregnancy and foetal growth".

scientific article published on 6 September 2016

Communities in charge of alcohol (CICA): a protocol for a stepped-wedge randomised control trial of an alcohol health champions programme.

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Comparison of self-reported occupational exposure with a job exposure matrix in an international community-based study on asthma.

scientific article published in May 2005

Construction, Validation and Sensitivity Analyses of a Job Exposure Matrix for Early Plutonium Workers at the Sellafield Nuclear Site, United Kingdom

scientific article published on 06 November 2018

Corrigendum to "Inferring the 1985-2014 impact of mobile phone use on selected brain cancer subtypes using Bayesian structural time series and synthetic controls" [Environ. Int. (2016), 97, 100-107].

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

DNA methylation from birth to late adolescence and development of multiple-risk behaviours

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Defining 'evidence' in public health: a survey of policymakers' uses and preferences

scientific article published on 9 July 2015

Does a more refined assessment of exposure to bitumen fume and confounders alter risk estimates from a nested case-control study of lung cancer among European asphalt workers?

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Dyes and Pigments

Effects of long-term exposure to PM10 and NO2 on asthma and wheeze in a prospective birth cohort

scientific article published on 2 September 2013

Effects of magnetic stray fields from a 7 tesla MRI scanner on neurocognition: a double-blind randomised crossover study

scientific article published on 27 August 2012

Elaboration of a quantitative job-exposure matrix for historical exposure to airborne exposures in the Polish rubber industry

scientific article published in November 2008

Enviromental and risk factors for progressive supranuclear palsy

scientific article published on 4 March 2016

Environmental and occupational toxicants

scientific article published on January 2011

Environmental risk factors for cancers of the brain and nervous system: the use of ecological data to generate hypotheses

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Evaluating the causal impact of individual alcohol licensing decisions on local health and crime using natural experiments with synthetic controls

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Evaluation of proteins in natural rubber latex gloves and pulmonary function amongst female nurses in two tertiary hospitals in southern, Thailand

scientific article published on 03 November 2019

Exploring the impact of public health teams on alcohol premises licensing in England and Scotland (ExILEnS): procotol for a mixed methods natural experiment evaluation

article by Niamh Fitzgerald et al published 6 November 2018 in BMC Medical Research Methodology

Exposure assessment for a nested case-control study of lung cancer among European asphalt workers

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Exposure to alternating electromagnetic fields and effects on the visual and visuomotor systems

scientific article published on 17 September 2007

Exposure to inhalable dust and its cyclohexane soluble fraction since the 1970s in the rubber manufacturing industry in the European Union

scientific article published on 10 October 2007

Exposure to rubber process dust and fume since 1970s in the United Kingdom; influence of origin of measurement data.

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Exposure to static and time-varying magnetic fields from working in the static magnetic stray fields of MRI scanners: a comprehensive survey in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 18 August 2014

Exposure, health complaints and cognitive performance among employees of an MRI scanners manufacturing department

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Field comparison of inhalable aerosol samplers applied in the european rubber manufacturing industry

scientific article published on 28 February 2006

Forecasting the 2021 local burden of population alcohol‐related harms using Bayesian structural time–series

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

Health Effects and Safety of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Health complaints among nurses working near MRI scanners--a descriptive pilot study

scientific article published on 14 October 2010

Healthy worker effects explain differences in internal and external comparisons in a rubber industry cohort study

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Historical "evidence" that electrification caused the 20th century epidemic of diseases of civilization and the ecological fallacy

scientific article published on 16 December 2009

Historical exposure levels of inhalable dust in the Polish rubber industry compared to levels in Western Europe

How common are myeloproliferative neoplasms? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

scientific article published on June 2014

Human MRI above the FDA 8T guideline: Can we conclude that it is safe?

ICNIRP Statement on Diagnostic Devices Using Non-Ionizing Radiation: Existing Regulations and Potential Health Risks.

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Identifying public health policymakers' sources of information: comparing survey and network analyses

scientific article published on 9 July 2015

Impact of banning smoking in cars with children on exposure to second-hand smoke: a natural experiment in England and Scotland

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Incorporating uncertainty in aggregate burden of disease measures: an example of DALYs-averted by a smoking cessation campaign in the UK.

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Increased N7-methyldeoxyguanosine DNA adducts after occupational exposure to pesticides and influence of genetic polymorphisms of paraoxonase-1 and glutathione S-transferase M1 and T1.

scientific article published on 26 November 2014

Inferring the 1985-2014 impact of mobile phone use on selected brain cancer subtypes using Bayesian structural time series and synthetic controls

scientific article published on 8 November 2016

Investigating local policy drivers for alcohol harm prevention: a comparative case study of two local authorities in England.

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

Job-exposure matrix for historical exposures to rubber dust, rubber fumes and n-Nitrosamines in the British rubber industry

scientific article published on 16 February 2019

Knowledge about occupational latex allergy amongst Thai nurses and student nurses

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Latex sensitization and risk factors in female nurses in Thai governmental hospitals

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Lifetime cumulative exposure to rubber dust, fumes and N-nitrosamines and non-cancer mortality: a 49-year follow-up of UK rubber factory workers

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Lifetime exposure to rubber dusts, fumes and N-nitrosamines and cancer mortality in a cohort of British rubber workers with 49 years follow-up

scientific article published on 16 February 2019

Local policies to tackle a national problem: Comparative qualitative case studies of an English local authority alcohol availability intervention

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Long-term exposure to PM10 and NO2 in association with lung volume and airway resistance in the MAAS birth cohort

scientific article published on 18 June 2013

Maternal residential proximity to sources of extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields and adverse birth outcomes in a UK cohort

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Measurable effects of local alcohol licensing policies on population health in England

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

Methodological advances to mitigate some of the challenges of research on alcohol and all-cause mortality: Commentary on Rehm

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Misinterpretations in inferences on the causal contribution of cell phones to brain tumour incidence in South Korea: Response to Moon (2023)

scientific article published in 2023

Modelling air pollution for epidemiologic research--Part I: A novel approach combining land use regression and air dispersion.

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Modelling air pollution for epidemiologic research--part II: predicting temporal variation through land use regression.

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Modifiable Lifestyle and Medical Risk Factors Associated With Myeloproliferative Neoplasms

scientific article published on 03 January 2020

Motivation to reduce alcohol consumption and subsequent attempts at reduction and changes in consumption in increasing and higher-risk drinkers in England: a prospective population survey

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Myeloproliferative neoplasm patient symptom burden and quality of life: evidence of significant impairment compared to controls

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Neurobehavioral effects among subjects exposed to high static and gradient magnetic fields from a 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging system--a case-crossover pilot study.

scientific article published in October 2003

Observations of Isocyanate, Amide, Nitrate, and Nitro Compounds From an Anthropogenic Biomass Burning Event Using a ToF-CIMS

Occupation and the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma

scientific article published on March 2007

Occupational Exposure to Respirable Dust, Respirable Crystalline Silica and Diesel Engine Exhaust Emissions in the London Tunnelling Environment

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Occupational exposure of healthcare and research staff to static magnetic stray fields from 1.5-7 Tesla MRI scanners is associated with reporting of transient symptoms

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Occupational exposure to NDMA and NMor in the European rubber industry

scientific article published on 8 January 2007

Patient perspectives of a diagnosis of myeloproliferative neoplasm in a case control study

scientific article published on January 2015

Performance of a microenviromental model for estimating personal NO2 exposure in children

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Personal exposure to inhalable dust and the specific latex aero-allergen, Hev b6.02, in latex glove manufacturing in Thailand

scientific article published on 25 February 2014

Personal exposure to static and time-varying magnetic fields during MRI procedures in clinical practice in the UK

scientific article published on 16 December 2015

Personal exposure to static and time-varying magnetic fields during MRI system test procedures

scientific article published in November 2009

Personalised digital interventions for reducing hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption in community-dwelling populations

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Pesticide residue transfer in Thai farmer families: using structural equation modeling to determine exposure pathways

scientific article published on 12 December 2014

Pooled analyses of effects on visual and visuomotor performance from exposure to magnetic stray fields from MRI scanners: application of the Bayesian framework

scientific article published in November 2007

Processes of local alcohol policy-making in England: Does the theory of policy transfer provide useful insights into public health decision-making?

scientific article published on 13 June 2017

Propensity score matching for selection of local areas as controls for evaluation of effects of alcohol policies in case series and quasi case-control designs.

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

Radiofrequency Exposure

Ray's Awareness. Radiation Health Effects Made Easy with Professor Dee and Doctor Hay.

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

Refutation of dirty electricity hypothesis in obesity: epistemological arguments and trans-disciplinary study using an instrumental variable

scientific article published on 27 November 2013

Reported Theory Use by Digital Interventions for Hazardous and Harmful Alcohol Consumption, and Association With Effectiveness: Meta-Regression

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Reported Theory Use by Digital Interventions for Hazardous and Harmful Alcohol Consumption, and Association With Effectiveness: Meta-Regression

Reported Theory Use by Digital Interventions for Hazardous and Harmful Alcohol Consumption, and Association With Effectiveness: Meta-Regression

article published in 2017

Residential exposure to radon and DNA methylation across the lifecourse: an exploratory study in the ALSPAC birth cohort

Residential proximity to electromagnetic field sources and birth weight: Minimizing residual confounding using multiple imputation and propensity score matching

scientific article published on 7 May 2014

Respiratory and dermal symptoms in Thai nurses using latex products

scientific article published on 7 June 2013

Response to: ‘Synthetic control methodology as a tool for evaluating population-level health interventions’ by Bouttellet al

Rethinking cumulative exposure in epidemiology, again

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Reweighting national survey data for small area behaviour estimates: modelling alcohol consumption in Local Authorities in England

scientific article published on 02 January 2020

Sensitivity of the association between increased lung cancer risk and bitumen fume exposure to the assumptions in the assessment of exposure

scientific article published on 28 October 2008

Spatial variation of PM elemental composition between and within 20 European study areas--Results of the ESCAPE project

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

Spatial variation of PM2.5, PM10, PM2.5 absorbance and PMcoarse concentrations between and within 20 European study areas and the relationship with NO2 – Results of the ESCAPE project

Static magnetic field effects on human subjects related to magnetic resonance imaging systems

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Systematic Review of the Exposure Assessment and Epidemiology of High-Frequency Voltage Transients

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Temporal patterns of alcohol consumption and attempts to reduce alcohol intake in England

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Testing the impact of local alcohol licencing policies on reported crime rates in England

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

The Use of Benford’s Law for Evaluation of Quality of Occupational Hygiene Data

scientific article published on September 20, 2012

The association between different night shiftwork factors and breast cancer: a case-control study

scientific article published on 10 September 2013

The case of acoustic neuroma: comment on: mobile phone use and risk of brain neoplasms and other cancers

scientific article published on 27 September 2013

The future of exposure assessment: perspectives from the X2012 Conference

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The human factor: Re-organisations in public health policy

scientific article published on April 9, 2012

The influence of seeking God in the association between religiosity and prolonged survival in liver transplant recipients.

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The intervention effect of local alcohol licensing policies on hospital admission and crime: a natural experiment using a novel Bayesian synthetictime-series method

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Time trends (1998-2007) in brain cancer incidence rates in relation to mobile phone use in England.

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Transient health symptoms of MRI staff working with 1.5 and 3.0 Tesla scanners in the UK.

scientific article published on 13 March 2015

Urinary DAP metabolite levels in Thai farmers and their families and exposure to pesticides from agricultural pesticide spraying.

scientific article published on 12 March 2011

Variation of NO2 and NOx concentrations between and within 36 European study areas: Results from the ESCAPE study

scientific article published in December 2012

What do measures of agreement (κ) tell us about quality of exposure assessment? Theoretical analysis and numerical simulation

scientific article published on 3 December 2013

What to Do When Accumulated Exposure Affects Health but Only Its Duration Was Measured? A Case of Linear Regression

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Who runs public health? A mixed-methods study combining qualitative and network analyses

scientific article published on 5 April 2013

Wishful Thinking? Inside the Black Box of Exposure Assessment

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Work-related ill-health in radiographers

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

[Health complaints and cognitive effects caused by exposure to MRI scanner magnetic fields]

scientific article published on 01 January 2007