The birth, growth and development and future dimensions of occupational health nursing.

O ccupational Health Care is concerned with the prevention and, if necessary, the m anagement of diseases or injuries to which any worker, because o f his work, may be exposed. It goes even further for it deals with injuries or disease conditions which may not be directly caused by the type of work itself, but which may prevent the worker from carrying out his work satisfac­ torily. This is a very wide interpretation of the concept, but it is part o f an effort to keep the worker healthy and at work and if this means treating or preventing inter­ current deviations from normal health, then it surely falls within the context of Occupational Health Care.