Publications by authors named "Suzanne E. Tomasi"
Background: Dentists can be exposed to dust and nanoparticles from teeth, dental composites, and metal alloys generated during dental procedures, and exposure to dust can cause respiratory diseases, including pulmonary fibrosis. The authors describe mortality from nonmalignant respiratory diseases (NMRDs) among dentists in the United States.
Methods: The authors submitted information on US dentists who died from 1979 through 2018 to a centralized US death records database to obtain underlying causes of death.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) is a fellowship in applied epidemiology for physicians, veterinarians, nurses, scientists, and other health professionals. Each EIS fellow is assigned to a position at a federal, state, or local site for 2 years of on-the-job training in outbreak investigation, epidemiologic research, surveillance system evaluation, and scientific communication. Although the original focus of the program on the control of infectious diseases remains salient, positions are available for training in other areas of public health, including occupational respiratory disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess proportionate mortality from all causes for male and female US veterinarians during 1979 through 2015.
Sample: Death records for 11,620 veterinarians.
Procedures: For this proportionate mortality ratio (PMR) study, information for veterinarians who died during 1979 through 2015 was obtained from AVMA obituary and life insurance databases and submitted to a centralized database of US death records to obtain underlying causes of death.
Objective: Assess COVID-19 vaccine uptake among veterinarians and describe unvaccinated veterinarians' perceptions of COVID-19 disease and vaccines.
Sample: 2,721 (14%) of 19,654 randomly sampled AVMA members.
Procedures: A survey of AVMA members was conducted between June 8 and June 18, 2021.
Article Synopsis
- Transit workers face a higher risk of COVID-19 due to their job requirements that involve prolonged public interaction, making timely data collection essential for public health guidance.
- The study used nontraditional surveillance methods to compile demographic and job characteristics of 118 transit workers from two unions who died from COVID-19 in New York City during the early pandemic.
- The findings revealed that most decedents were male (83%) with a median age of 58 and highlighted the importance of developing targeted mitigation strategies for this vulnerable workforce.
Background: Non-malignant respiratory disease (NMRD) cases have occurred among rubber manufacturing workers. We examined exposure to rubber manufacturing emissions as a risk factor for NMRD.
Methods: From a systematic literature review, we identified case reports and assessed cross-sectional and mortality studies for strength of evidence of positive association (strong, intermediate, non-significant positive association, none) between exposure to rubber manufacturing emissions and NMRD-related morbidity and mortality, and conducted two meta-analyses.