The indicators traditionally used to determine occupational health conditions include occupational accidents and diseases. Accidents are an abrupt upset of the agent-host-environment balance, are easily identifiable inasmuch as the casual nexus can be clearly established, and can produce varying degrees of injury, including death. Occupational diseases, on the other hand, involve a slower, more...

The School of Community and Environmental Health offers graduate and certificate programs which lead to careers in health services research, public health, community health, health care administration, environmental health, and occupational safety. The Master of Science in community health offers practicing health care professionals the opportunity to complete their degrees in a distance format...

The School of Community and Environmental Health offers graduate and certificate programs which lead to careers in health services research, public health, community health, health care administration, environmental health, and occupational safety. The Master of Science in community health offers practicing health care professionals the opportunity to complete their degrees in a distance format...

Recent industrialization and globalizations are changing the Indian occupational morbidity drastically. Traditionally labor-oriented markets are on change towards more automation and mechanization, at the same time general awareness about occupational safety, occupational and environmental hazards were not spread in the society. This review will provide an overview of existing evidence from com...

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...

The School of Community and Environmental Health offers graduate and certificate programs which lead to careers in health services research, public health, community health, health care administration, environmental health, and occupational safety. The Master of Science in community health offers practicing health care professionals the opportunity to complete their degrees in a distance format...