Medical Aspects of Expatriate Health

Medical aspects of expatriate health: health threats.

The globalisation of business activity can lead to the movement of key employees and their dependants from country to country. In their host country these expatriates often face health hazards not experienced at home. This paper describes the range of health issues of relevance to expatriates.

Management of expatriate medical assistance in Mozambique

This paper discusses how Mozambique coped with the health system needs in terms of specialized doctors since independence, in a troubled context of war, lack of financial resources and modifying settings of foreign aid. The Ministry of Health (MOH) managed to make up for its severe scarcity of specialist MDs especially through contracting expatriate technical assistance. Different scenarios, pa...

Health Benefits Medical Aspects of Air Humidity

4 3 2 We are surrounded by pathogenic microorganisms all the time. Among the reasons they can do us no harm are the protective mechanisms of the mucous membranes. We are protected by a continuous self-cleaning function in the respiratory tract. Our bronchial tubes, trachea, larynx, nose, and wide sections of the pharynx contain ciliated cells, on the surface of which are found hair-like structu...

MEDICAL ASPECTS OF ISLAMIC FASTING

Multidisciplinary model of occupational health services. Medical and non-medical aspects of occupational health.

Since 1950, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have had a common definition of occupational health. The definition was adopted by the Joint ILO/WHO Committee on Occupational Health at its First Session (1950) and revised at its 12th Session (Geneva, November 1995). Occupational health should aim to promote and maintain the highest degree of physi...