The preventive medicine milestone project: occupational medicine.

The preventive medicine milestone project: public health and general preventive medicine.

The preventive medicine milestone project: aerospace medicine.

Sports medicine, preventive medicine, and modern life. (Independent views)

Sport is one of the essential elements of life today. Ifs value in the prevention of illness should not be under estimated. Sports medicine also has an important part to play in the selection, guidance and supervision of competitive athletes, but it is concerned, above all, with public hygiene and the prevention of ill-health. Sports medicine, like occupational medicine, has an increasing role ...

Preventive Medicine's Identity Crisis.

What is preventive medicine? Specifically, what is the specialty of preventive medicine, and how should it best be described? The specialty of preventive medicine is poorly understood, not only by the medical profession and the general public, but even among some of its practitioners. Currently, there is no unifying, vernacular explanation of the specialty of preventive medicine, to its detrime...

Health and safety economics: limitations of economic appraisal of occupational health services activities in Poland.

Methods of economic appraisal developed for evaluating activities in health care system may as well be successfully used for evaluating occupational health service activities. This involves the problem of resources management and cost containment not only at the company level, but also at different managerial and institutional levels. The decision makers have to know what resources are spent on...