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International Journal of Epidemiology 2008 37(5):1189-1191; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn143
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Culture and pain in the work place: the domain of occupational epidemiology?

Joy Adamson* and Karl Atkin

Corresponding author. Department of Health Sciences, University of York, 1st Floor Seebohm Rowntree Building, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK. E-mail: ja14@york.ac.uk

Accepted 19 June 2008

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Madan and colleagues1 test the hypothesis that cultural factors have an important influence on common musculo-skeletal symptoms. They do so by comparing the prevalence of musculo-skeletal pain in three different anatomical sites (back, neck and arm) in groups of workers carrying out similar occupational physical activities in different ‘cultural’ settings. Six ‘cultural groups’, who were largely male, were compared: Indian manual workers; UK manual workers of Indian subcontinental origin; white UK manual workers; Indian office workers; UK office workers of Indian subcontinental origin and white UK office workers.

If we agree with Bhopal2 who purports that the central question in ‘cross-cultural’ epidemiology is: why is a disease more (or less) common in one ethnic group of people than another? Then we would hope the paper would help . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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