1 State Police, Health Service Department, Ministry of Interior, Italy 2 Italian Society of Integrative Psychotherapy for Social Development (SIPISS) 3 Hospital Occupational Medicine Unit (UOOML), ICS Maugeri SpA SB, Pavia (Italy). 4 Occupational Medicine Unit “S. Maugeri”, Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia (Italy). Hospital Occupational Medici...

1Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA 2Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology andTherapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA 3Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215,...

Occupational medicine and occupational health (OH) have been two separate disciplines. Occupational medicine was changed to occupational and environmental medicine (OEM) in 1992 and specialists primarily work in university hospitals, where they are occupied with clinical duties (examination of complicated referral cases), providing advice and carrying out teaching and research. OH specialists p...

Family medicine and occupational medicine share close similarities in their focus on disease prevention and health promotion. The opportunities for mutual learning and collaboration in patient care abound, with far-reaching implications on the standard of patient care that can be offered. Unfortunately, a gap exists between family medicine and occupational medicine in dayto- day practice as wel...

The purpose of this research was to determine if patient satisfaction differed when clinical services were provided by nurse practitioners versus physicians in the occupational health setting. This convenience sample included 129 patients visiting community-based occupational medicine clinics for evaluation of a new work-related injury. There was high satisfaction with both nurse practitioner a...

The presentations and discussions summarised provide an overview on the current state of knowledge on a wide range of occupational health risks to which seafarers are exposed. The definition of an occupational risk for a seafarer poses problems as their ship provides both their working and their living environment and, because of its mobility, can expose them to diverse climatic and infectious ...

The Occupational Medicine Forum is prepared by the ACOEM Occupational and Environmental Medical Practice Committee and does not necessarily represent an official ACOEM position. The Forum is intended for health professionals and is not intended to provide medical or legal advice, including illness prevention, diagnosis or treatment, or regulatory compliance. Such advice should be obtained direc...

South Korea achieved very rapid economic development between the 1960s and 1990s, with a focus on manufacturing, during which time primary industry strikingly dwindled. Recently, Korea’s economy has begun to change from one that is manufacturing based to an economy that is essentially service based. In the last 20 years, small businesses have greatly increased in number and the proportions of w...

This editorial is to announce the Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, a new Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal published by BioMed Central. Occupational medicine and toxicology belong to the most wide ranging disciplines of all medical specialties. The field is devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, management and scientific analysis of diseases from the fields of occupation...