The World Bank in its document under the title'Investing in Health'(1993) states that the
health status of the population, including the working population, and working conditions in …

T he primary goal of occupational health was defined in 1950 by the World Health
Organization as follows: Occupational health should aim at: the promotion and maintenance …

The article presents strategy and goals of study program in occupational health for the years
1991-1995. Five strategy lines and corresponding to them goals have been determined …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the various ways to prevent occupational
disease. The successful prevention of known potential hazards in a new process depends …

This article deals with the special demands on occupational medicine due to the changes of
work and of tasks at workplaces. Conclusions for research in occupational medicine are …

papers is devoted to the state of affairs in occupational health and esp~ cially occupational
hygiene outside the Western industrialized world. It iswell known that the fields of …

The industrial revolution that occurred in the first half of the nineteenth century brought the
need of occupational medicine, which originated as a medical specialty in England, to …

Health defined the objectives of occupational health as follows:" the promotion and
maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental, and social well-being of workers in …

Occupational medicine in Poland has a long tradition, dating back to the establishment of
the first health-care institutions for industrial workers at an early stage of Poland's …

Occupational health can mean many different things, but fundamentally it is concerned with
the effect of work on health and the effect of health on the capacity for work. Many disciplines …