In the Netherlands, the need for a basically new approach to education and training in occupational medicine was felt by professionals, students, schools and occupational health services (OHS) in the early 1990s. After an inventory of the problems and shortcomings of the traditional curriculum, the Netherlands School of Occupational Health defined the framework for a new curriculum. In this art...

This study describes the needs of universities in relation to planning the provision of occupational health services, by detailing their occupational hazards and risks and other relevant factors. The paper presents the results of (1) an enquiry into publicly available data relevant to occupational health in the university sector in the United Kingdom, (2) a literature review on occupational hea...

Occupational asthma has become the most prevalent occupational lung disease in developed countries. At present, about 200 agents have been implicated in causing occupational asthma in the workplace. These agents can be divided into two categories by their mechanism of action: immunological and nonimmunological. Immunological causes can be further divided into those that induce asthma through an...

BACKGROUND In many European countries, Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) providers report their activities and results annually. Ideally, this report should offer an overview of their activities and of the outcome regarding occupational health and safety. To establish a set of epidemiological and performance indicators for electronic reporting of data that can be used for OHS surveillance an...

background and aim: occupational stress is one of the key factors in reducing staff productivity in organizations with physical and psychological impacts on employees. nursing and midwifery are among the most stressful professions. therefore, this study aimed to determine the relationship between occupational stress and work ability of midwives in mashhad, iran in 2011. materials and methods: t...

since early 1980s, many empirical studies were carried out to recognize stress syndrome and occupational burnout in the united states libraries; the results indicated that the librarians in other countries are susceptible to these two conditions, as well. the present paper investigates the rate of occupational burnout in librarians of university of isfahan, and evaluates the educational level, ...

drilling industry provides a significant potential for occupational health risks. thus, health-related hazards (chemical, physical, ergonomic and biological) must be recognized, evaluated and controlled in order to prevent occupational illnesses which come from exposure to them. for these, a good occupational health risk assessment needs to be applied. risk assessment monitors risks and provide...

Since 1950, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have had a common definition of occupational health. The definition was adopted by the Joint ILO/WHO Committee on Occupational Health at its First Session (1950) and revised at its 12th Session (Geneva, November 1995). Occupational health should aim to promote and maintain the highest degree of physi...

Processes and conditions of production may produce unhealthy effects. Both must therefore be included in the education of health care personnel. Vocational training in occupational health at Kocaeli University Medical School, Turkey aims to demonstrate students that occupational health is a specific and important area of work within the context of primary health care. This research is a cross-s...

INTRODUCTION The role of cross-reactive carbohydrate determinants (CCDs) in diagnostics of occupational allergy remains unclarified and its clinical relevance is still questioned. The aim of the study was to assess the frequency of positive response to CCDs in the subjects with suspected occupational allergy and the relationship between other diagnostic test results and final diagnosis. MATER...