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Recent MonCOEH Publications

2009 Publications

Journal articles (published)

  1. Abramson MJ, BENKE GP, DIMITRIADIS C, Inyang IO, SIM MR, Wolfe RS, Croft RJ. Mobile telephone use is associated with changes in cognitive function in young adolescents. Bioelectromagnetics 2009 (online, ahead of print).
  2. Barclay JL, Miller BG, Dick S, DENNEKAMP M, Hillis GS, Ayres JG, Seaton A. A panel study of air pollution in subjects with heart failure; negative results in treated patients. Occup Environ Med 2009;66:325-34. (Impact factor: 3.302)
  3. Carboon I, Creamer M, Forbes AB, MCKENZIE DP, McFarlane AC, & KELSALL HL. The relationship between deployment and turnover in Australian Navy personnel. Military Psychology 2009; 21:233-240.
  4. Cui J, de Klerk N, Abramson M, DEL MONACO A, BENKE G, DENNEKAMP M, Musk AW, SIM MR. Fractional polynomials and model selection in generalized estimating equation analysis, with an application to an occupational longitudinal study. Am J Epi 2009; 169: 113-21.
  5. Day L, Voaklander D, SIM MR, Wolfe R, Langley J, Dosman J, Ozanne-Smith J. Risk factors for work-related injury among males. Occup Environ Med 2009; 66 (5): 312-318. (Impact factor: 3.302)
  6. Friesen MC, BENKE G, DEL MONACO A, DENNEKAMP M, Fritschi L, de Klerk N, HOVING JL, MACFARLANE E, SIM MR. Relationship between cardiopulmonary mortality and cancer risk and quantitative exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, fluorides, and dust in two prebake aluminium smelters. Cancer Causes Control 2009; 20: 905–16.
  7. Friesen MC, Fritschi L, Del Monaco A, Benke G, Dennekamp M, de Klerk N, Hoving JL, MacFarlane E, Sim MR. Relationships between alumina and bauxite dust exposure and cancer, respiratory, and circulatory disease. Occup Environ Med 2009; doi:10.1136/oem.2008.043992. (Impact factor: 3.302)
  8. IKIN J, SIM MR, MCKENZIE D, Henderson S, Horsley K, Wilson E, Moore M, Harrex W. Korean War service impacting on quality of life fifty years on. J Epi Com Health 2009; 63(5): 359-65.
  9. Inyang I, BENKE G, McKenzie R, Abramson M. Use of hardware modified phones for exposure assessment in health studies in Australia: verification of compliance with standards. Aust Phys & Eng Sci 2009; 32 (2): 62-67.
  10. Karipidis K, BENKE G, SIM MR et al. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and occupational exposure to ionizing radiation assessed using an Australian job-exposure matrix. Occ Med 2009; doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqp096. (Impact factor: 3.302)
  11. KELSALL HL, Baglietto L, Muller D, Haydon AM, English DR, Giles GG. The effect of socioeconomic status on survival from colorectal cancer in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study. Social Science & Medicine 2009; 68: 290-297.
  12. Kelsall H, McKenzie DP, SIM MR, Leder K, Forbes AB, Dwyer T.  Physical, psychological and functional comorbidities of multisymptom illness in Australian male veterans of the 1991 Gulf War.  Am J Epidemiol 2009; doi: 10.1093/aje/kwp238 (Impact factor: 5.454)
  13. Loomis D, SIM MR. Change and continuity at OEM. Editorial. Occup Environ Med 2009; 66: 281.
  14. MACFARLANE E, BENKE G, DEL MONACO A, SIM MR. Cancer incidence and mortality and cancer incidence in a historical cohort of Australian pest control workers. Occup Environ Med 2009; doi:10.1136/oem.2008.045427. (Impact factor: 3.302)
  15. MACFARLANE E, GLASS D, and Fritschi L. Is farm-related job title an adequate surrogate for pesticide exposure in occupational cancer epidemiology? Occup Environ Med 2009; 66 (8): 497-501. (Impact factor: 3.302)
  16. MCKENZIE D, Creamer M, KELSALL H, Forbes A, IKIN J, SIM MR, McFarlane A.  Temporal relationships between Gulf War deployment and subsequent psychological disorders.  Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2009. DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0134-1. (Impact factor: 1.959)
  17. SIM MR. Mortality and cancer in Porton Down subjects – no increase in risk, but some health questions remain. Invited Editorial. BMJ 2009; 338; b358.
  18. SIM MR, Boffetta P. The emerging problem of occupational cancer in newly industrialising countries. Invited Editorial. Asia Pacific Journal Public Health 2009; 21: 241-3.
  19. SIM MR, DEL MONACO A, HOVING JL, MACFARLANE E, MCKENZIE D, BENKE G, de Klerk N, Fritschi L. Mortality and incidence of cancer in workers in two Australian aluminium smelters. Occup Environ Med 2009; 66(7): 464-470. [RM4 ref 2008009692]. (Impact factor: 3.302)
  20. Tham R, Erbas B, Akram M, DENNEKAMP M, Abramson M. The impact of smoke on respiratory hospital outcomes during a bushfire season. Respirology 2009;14: 69-75.

Journal articles (in press)

  1. Abramson M, BENKE G, DIMITRIADIS C, Inyang I, SIM MR, Wolfe R, Croft R. Mobile telephone use associated with impulsive behaviour in schoolchildren. Bioelectromagnetics (In press, accepted June 2009).
  2. Bolton D, Severi G, Millar J, KELSALL H, Davidson A-J, Smith C, Pedersen J, Giles G, Syme R. A whole of population-based series of radical prostatectomy, Victoria, Australia, 1995 - 2000. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health [In press, accepted May 2009]
  3. Hyland, R, Yates D, BENKE G, SIM MR, Johnson A. Occupational exposure to asbestos in NSW (1970-1989): Development of an Asbestos Task Exposure Matrix. Occup Environ Med (In Press, accepted June 2008).
  4. KARIPIDIS K, BENKE G, SIM MR. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and occupational exposure to ionizing radiation assessed using an Australian job-exposure matrix. Occ Med (In press, accepted May 2009).
  5. KELSALL H, MCKENZIE D, SIM MR, Leder K, Forbes A, Dwyer T. Physical, psychological and functional comorbidities of multisymptom illness in Australian veterans of the 1991 Gulf War. Am J Epidemiol (In press, accepted June 2009).
  6. MCKENZIE DP, Clarke DM, Forbes AB, SIM MR. Relating demoralisation and anhedonia to DSM-IV major depression in the hospitalised medically ill. Psychosomatics (In press, accepted Oct 2008).
  7. McKenzie M, Clarke DM, McKenzie DP, Smith GC. Persistence of DSM-IV depressive, anxiety and spectrum Disorders: Which factors predict the persistence of DSM-IV depression, anxiety and somatoform disorders in the medically ill three months post hospital discharge? Journal of Psychosomatic Research. In press, accepted August 2009. (impact factor = 2.54).
  8. McKenzie D, Creamer M, Kelsall H, Forbes A, Ikin J, SIM MR, McFarlane A. Temporal relationships between Gulf War deployment and subsequent psychological disorders. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (In press, accepted August, 2009).
  9. Milton AH, Smith W, Dear K, Ng J, SIM MR, Ranmuthugala G, Lokuge K, Rahman A, Rahman H, Shraim A, Huang D. A randomised intervention trial to assess the arsenic mitigation options in Bangladesh. Journal Health, Population and Nutrition (In press). (Impact factor 0.625)
  10. SIM MR, Agius R. The role of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in strengthening the evidence base for occupational health practice. Invited Editorial. Occup Environ Med (In press, accepted June 2009).
  11. SIM MR, Fritschi L. Occupational cancer screening. Invited paper for Australian Family Physician (in Press).
  12. Zock J-P, Plana E, Anto JM, BENKE G, Blanc P, et al. Domestic use of Hypochlorite bleach, atopic sensitization and respiratory symptoms in adults. J Allergy Clin Immunol (In press, accepted June 2009)

2008 Publications

Book Chapters

  1. SIM MR, Brown S. The indoor environment in health care facilities – Is it healthy? In Razzak A, Jayakumar G, Masilamani R (Eds), Occupational health for health care professionals. (2008) Malaysian Medical Association, Kuala Jumpur, Malaysia
  2. KHANJANI, N. Measuring Organochlorine Contamination in Humans. In Tennefy AB (Ed), Pesticide Research Trends (2008). Nova Science Publishers, New York, USA.
  3. Khanjani, N. The Biodynamics of Organochlorines in Humans. In Tennefy AB (Ed), Pesticide Research Trends (2008), Nova Publishers, New York, USA.

Journal Articles

  1. BENKE G, SIM MR, MCKENZIE DP, MACFARLANE E, DEL MONACO A, HOVING JL, Fritschi L. Comparison of first, last and longest held jobs as surrogates for all jobs in estimating cumulative exposure in cross-sectional  studies of work-related asthma. Ann Epidemiol 2008; 18(1): 23-27. (Impact factor 2.210).
  2. Croft RJ, McKenzie RJ, Inyang I, BENKE GP, Anderson V, abramson mj.  Mobile phones and brain tumours: a review of epidemiological research. Australasian physical & engineering sciences in medicine 2008; 31 (4): 255-267  
  3. Cui J, de Klerk N, Abramson M, DEL MONACO A, BENKE G, DENNEKAMP M, Musk AW, SIM M. Fractional polynomials and model selection in generalized estimating equations analysis, with an application to a longitudinal epidemiologic study in Australia. American Journal of Epidemiology (published online 18 Dec 2008) doi:10.1093/aje/kwn292 (Impact factor 5.285).
  4. Day L, Voaklander D, SIM MR, Wolfe R, Langley J, Dosman J, Ozanne-Smith J.  Risk factors for work-related injury among males.  Occup Environ Med 2008; published online 18 Dec 2008; doi:10.1136/oem.2008.040808 (Impact factor 1.934).
  5. Fritschi L, HOVING JL, SIM MR, DEL MONACO A, MACFARLANE E, MCKENZIE D, BENKE G, de Klerk N.  All cause mortality and incidence of cancer in workers in bauxite mines and alumina refineries.  Int J Cancer 2008; 123(4): 882-7. (Impact factor 4.555).
  6. Inyang I, BENKE G, McKenzie R, Abramson M. Comparison of measuring instruments for radiofrequency radiation from mobile telephones in epidemiological studies: implications for exposure assessment.  J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2008; 18(2): 134-141. (Impact factor 2.880).
  7. KARIPIDIS K, BENKE G, SIM MR.  Feasibility of constructing the radiation component of an Australian job-exposure matrix.  J Occ Health and Safety – Aust NZ.  2008; 24(1): 53-62. (Impact factor 1.335).
  8. KELSALL H, MCKENZIE D, SIM M, Leder K, Ross J, Forbes A, IKIN J. Comparison of self-reported and recorded vaccinations and health effects in Australian Gulf War veterans. Vaccine 2008; 26: 4290-4297. (Impact factor 3.377).
  9. MACFARLANE E, Chapman A, BENKE G, Meaklim J, SIM MR, McNeil J.  Training and other predictors of personal protective equipment use in Australian grain farmers using pesticides.  Occup Environ Med 2008; 65: 141-146. (Impact factor 1.934).
  10. McFarlane AC, MCKENZIE DP, Van Hooff M, Browne DG. Somatic and psychological dimensions of screening for psychiatric morbidity: a community validation of the SPHERE questionnaire. Journal of Psychiatric Research 2008; 65: 337-345. (Impact factor 2.32).
  11. Urquhart DM, HOVING JL, Assendelft WJJ, Roland M, Van Tulder MW. Antidepressants for non-specific low back pain. Cochrand Database Syst Rev.  2008; Jan 23, 1: 1-38. (Impact factor 4.654). CD001703.
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