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The French national epidemiological surveillance program EpiNano aims at surveying mid- and long-term health effects possibly related with occupational exposure to either carbon nanotubes (NTC) or titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2…

Objective: Analysing in a cross-sectionnal study the factors associated with mental health in 1511 recently delivered women returning to work, the mediating role of work- family interface and the moderating role of social supports. Methods…

Pregnancy while working concerns almost 70% of women, and returning to work after maternity leave represents a period of physical and mental vulnerability that was little explored. The present study was conducted in a large sample population…

Objective: In the French epidemiological surveillance program EpiNano, each workstation in the participating companies is randomly assigned a score of potential of exposure to nano-objects and their agglomerates and aggregates (NOAA), assessed…

Rationale: Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) induce groundbreaking impacts by endowing unique properties to materials. However, uncertainties remain on their biological aftereffects. Entrusted by health and labour ministries, the French Public…

Objective: Inter-method reliability is a measure of the ability of two different methods which evaluate the same underlying exposure to yield similar results on the same subjects. In this study we compared an observational “EpiNano-method…

Rationale: Entrusted by the Ministries of Health and of Labour, the French Public Health Agency have established, since 2014, the Epinano epidemiological surveillance system of workers potentially exposed in industries to engineered nanomaterials…

Le secteur d activit de la coiffure et des soins de beaut emploie environ 200 000 personnes en France, dont la majorit des femmes en ge de procr er (INSEE, 2009). Or l impact des substances chimiques potentiellement reprotoxiques ou perturbateurs…

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Within work-related asthma, a distinction is made between occupational asthma and work-aggravated asthma. About 25% of adulthood asthma would appear to be work-related asthma. The frequency of work-aggravated asthma would appear to vary in…