[Occupational health: history and future challenges].

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  • María del Carmen Gastañaga
چکیده

La actividad laboral del ser humano ha permitido transformar el mundo pero, al mismo tiempo, ha generado riesgos y enfermedades que han sido reconocidas desde muy antiguo. Galeno describió las intoxicaciones de los mineros de Chipre; durante el renacimiento, Georg Agricola (1494-1555) realizó una primera división entre enfermedades laborales crónicas y agudas; Paracelso, a mediados del siglo XVI, escribió el primer tratado de enfermedades de los mineros; y en 1733 Bernardino Ramazzini, escribió el De morbis artificum diatriba (discurso sobre las enfermedades de los trabajadores) con el cual se incorpora la salud ocupacional como una rama de la medicina.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Revista peruana de medicina experimental y salud publica

دوره 29 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012