Workers in the Indian informal sector are engaged with different occupations. These occupations involve varied work related hazards. These occupational hazards are a consequent risk to health. The study aimed to determine occupational health scenario in the Indian Informal sector. One thousand eleven hundred twenty two workers from five different occupations namely weaving (handloom and power l...

The author presents a review of the history of occupational health in Brazil, concerning the last 3 centuries. This period was divided into (a) slave labour, (b) immigrant labour, and (c) industrial labour. The author shows the early occupational diseases, pioneering occupational physicians and Brazilian laws on the subject. The creation of Fundacentro (Brazilian Foundation of Occupational Heal...

BACKGROUND Current evidence about the experiences of doctors who are unwell is limited to poor quality data. AIM To investigate GPs' experiences of significant illness, and how this affects their own subsequent practice. DESIGN OF STUDY Qualitative study using interpretative phenomenological analysis to conduct and analyse semi-structured interviews with GPs who have experienced significant...

The occupational health and safety (OHS) situation in expanding economies is not encouraging. As was dramatically demonstrated by the recent epidemic of Ebola virus disease in West Africa in which many health care workers lost their lives, the majority of lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) are currently not able to adequately prevent occupational diseases. Every year occupational health ser...

This is a report of a survey commissioned by Newcastle and North Tyne Health Authority. The aim of the project was to assess the occupational health needs of both GPs and their staff working in the General Practice in Newcastle and North Tyneside. The aim of the survey has been to obtain information about occupational health needs from general practitioners and their practice managers. The surv...

To investigate how and where doctors receive their health care, 275 general practitioners were given a questionnaire about their health care in the previous 10 years; responses were received from 247 doctors (90%). Thirty nine per cent of the subjects were registered with a general practitioner who was independent of them. All but one of the remainder were registered with a practice partner, cl...

AIMS To develop a questionnaire that measures specific aspects of patient satisfaction with occupational health physicians. METHODS General patient satisfaction questionnaires, a literature survey, and interviews with patients were used. An initial questionnaire was distributed among sick listed patients (n = 432) of occupational physicians (n = 90) from different occupational health services...

Editor-Seaton and Agius are right.' Occupational medicine is too important to remain either a luxury optional extra, or an industrial and academic ghetto. Over two million people every year have ill health because of their work. More days of work are lost because of occupational asthma than strikes, and work related asbestos diseases are set to become the biggest single killer of adult men. Tra...

The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in collaboration with the Ministry of Health Care carries out the activities aimed at solving occupational health and safety problems in Lithuania. Occupational health care system in Lithuania consists of three levels: 1) primary occupational health centers in the industry; 2) general practitioners taking care of employees' health; and 3) the State Labor...

OBJECTIVES The automotive industry represents the most important industrial sector in Czechia. The objective of this study has been to analyze the occurrence of occupational diseases (OD) in the automotive industry during the period from 2001 till 2014. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data on OD cases was retrieved from the National Registry of OD. Further, we conducted a survey in automotive companies ...