Institute of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases Problems of Industrial Toxicology

Center for Occupational Health at the National Institute of Public Health. WHO Collaborating Center for Occupational Health.

The history of the Center for Occupational Health (COH) at the National Institute of Public Health in Prague dates back to the early 1950s. The Center was established on January 1, 1952. The first director of the Institute was Prof. Jaroslav Teisinger, M.D., D.Sc. (1902–1985), the founding father of occupational medicine in former Czechoslovakia, and the head of the first Czech Department of Oc...

Occupational health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, founded in 1929 to study all aspects of public health, set up an occupational health unit in 1956 funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. With financial aid from the Trades Union Congress it expanded into an institute with an information and advisory service. Employers and trade unions sought advice on health problems which led to research proje...

Occupational health research in India.

India being a developing nation is faced with traditional public health problems like communicable diseases, malnutrition, poor environmental sanitation and inadequate medical care. However, globalization and rapid industrial growth in the last few years has resulted in emergence of occupational health related issues. Agriculture (cultivators i.e. land owners + agriculture labourers) is the mai...

Hazards of the job: from industrial disease to environmental health science

Occupational health-or "industrial hygiene", as it was known in the early. twentieth century-has hardly figured in most accounts of the workplace. Business historians are mostly management oriented; medical and social historians have yet to give the subject the attention it deserves. Christopher Sellers' book is therefore particularly welcome. It traces the history of industrial hygiene in Amer...

Problems in the study of decaborane and possible therapy of its poisoning.