Hence, recent population based studies have shown that some not previously identified occupations and occupational exposures are possibly associated with asthma [ 2, 5, 15- 17].
We screened the list of occupational titles to exclude obsolete or very rare titles and to identify occupations with minimal exposures to the lower limbs.
The identified occupations with high need for prevention among men come from nearly all major occupational groups whereas women cluster in occupational groups from the health and care sectors.
Low values of the indexes correspond to occupations with a large proportion of workers acting like the typical worker, whereas high values identify occupations where the weight of the typical worker is low, and therefore the task implementation is more heterogeneous.
Our objective was to identify occupations associated with elevated rates of breast cancer.
Alternatively, the numbers of employees in the identified occupations for women were mainly increasing.
The identified occupations with at least 5 cases between 2002 and 2009 came from different economic sectors.
If it is more important to reduce the risk for an OD than the incidence is the method to identify occupations with a high risk.
The aim of this paper is to identify occupations at risk and the potential health impacts of heat on workers in Taiwan.
