Occupational diseases in the health sector as viewed from a clinical standpoint by the Centre for Occupational Diseases

The Prevalence of Occupational Risk Factors and Occupational Diseases in Kerman, Iran

Background and aims: Many workers face significant hazardous workplace exposures, especially indeveloping countries. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of occupational riskfactors and common occupational diseases in Kerman.Methods: This study was based on data from occupational risk factor and disease monitoring systemsavailable at Kerman Provi...

Occupational Diseases: a Public Health Problem

The indicators traditionally used to determine occupational health conditions include occupational accidents and diseases. Accidents are an abrupt upset of the agent-host-environment balance, are easily identifiable inasmuch as the casual nexus can be clearly established, and can produce varying degrees of injury, including death. Occupational diseases, on the other hand, involve a slower, more...

Registers for occupational diseases.

Occupational Diseases in Korea

Korea has industrialized since the 1970s. Pneumoconiosis in coal miners was the most common occupational disease in the 1970s to 1980s. With the industrialization, the use of many chemicals have increased since the 1970s. As a consequence, there were outbreaks of occupational diseases caused by poisonous chemicals, such as heavy metal poisoning, solvent poisoning and occupational asthma in the ...

Compensation for Occupational Skin Diseases

The Korean list of occupational skin diseases was amended in July 2013. The past list was constructed according to the causative agent and the target organ, and the items of that list had not been reviewed for a long period. The revised list was reconstructed to include diseases classified by the International Classification of Diseases (10th version). Therefore, the items of compensable occupa...