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COVID-19 immunizations in occupational medicine
This article discusses issues related to exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in the work environment and employee’s vaccination against COVID-19. The new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus identified as the etiologic agent of COVID-19 prompted the World Health Organization (WHO)
Ernest P. Kuchar+1 more
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Gaetano Pieraccini: Public Health giant who created Italian Social Medicine
It’s well known all over the world that Italy is the birthplace of Bernardino Ramazzini (1633 - 1714), the real founder of occupational medicine, and that Italian doctors had a great importance in scientific and cultural development in occupational ...
Roberto Bucci+3 more
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Occupational Health in Mountainous Kyrgyzstan
Background: In the period of transition from a centralized economy to the market economy, occupational health services in Kyrgyzstan have survived through dramatic, detrimental changes.
Kenesh O. Dzhusupov+3 more
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Background: Globally, access to occupational health and safety (OHS) by workers has remained at very low levels. The organization and implementation of OHS in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Botswana has remained at suboptimal levels.
Dingani Moyo+3 more
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Trend towards multiple authorship in occupational medicine journals
Background There is an established trend towards an increasing number of authors per article in prestigious journals for medicine and health sciences.
Aw Tar-Ching, Shaban Sami
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Pandemic influenza: implications for occupational medicine
This article reviews the biological and occupational medicine literature related to H5N1 pandemic influenza and its impact on infection control, cost and business continuity in settings outside the health care community. The literature on H5N1 biology is
Burnstein Matthew D, Journeay W Shane
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Auditing Occupational Medicine [PDF]
An important challenge facing the quality of practice in occupational medicine is a limited evidence-base, but equally important is the need to translate good evidence into high quality practice. Audit has an important role to play in addressing the determinants of variations in practice.
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Consensus of Chinese experts on pneumoconiosis treatment (2024)
Pneumoconiosis is the most serious occupational disease in China, and the prevention and treatment of pneumoconiosis attracts extensive social concerns.
Occupational Lung Disease Group of Labor Hygiene and Occupational Diseases Branch of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association
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Occupational allergic respiratory diseases - occupational asthma
Introduction and objective: Occupational diseases, most often caused by allergens or irritants in the workplace, lead to a deterioration in the quality of life of employees and, in some cases, the inability to continue working in a specific position.It ...
Dominika Kopiec, Karolina Kuzioła
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In this issue of Occupational Medicine [PDF]
Our two editorials consider the impact of the UK's 1974 Health & Safety at Work etc. Act, 40 years after it became the central piece of legislation intended to protect work- ers and the public from harm caused by work activities. Karen Clayton of the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) (1) highlights the reduction in the number of workplace fatalities and ...
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