Students should be able to describe:
- The role of occupational health practice within the community
- Inter-relation between OH and preventive health practices.
- The major components of occupation health practice
- The focus on maintaining health and preventing disease.
- Why the workplace can be hazardous to the health of individuals
- How OH/IH programs contribute to community health
- Why OH/IH data are part of the surveillance role of the public health agency.
- Competencies 1B(1,2,3,4,7) 1C(10), 1D(4,10), 1F(1,3,5) II(a)
Key Words
Occupational health, Occupational Medicine, Occupational Hygiene, Industrial Hygienist, Health Hazards, Risk Assessment, Worker health, workman's compensation, Maternal Safety Data Sheets, Right to Know, industrial epidemiology, OSHA, Dept. Of Labor, Environmental Hazards.
Concept
Most people work outside their home and expect their workplace to be free from physical and environmental hazards. The workplace may be the only place where many lower income workers have access to health services.
References
Return To Work (.pdf
file, read with Adobe reader)
Introduction to Public Health, Schneider, Chapter 19
Gen. Ref. from Dr Vance - Risk, costs and lives Saved. Getting
better results from regulations. Edited by Robert W. Hahn. Oxford University
Press. 1996)
New Papers - Take a look at the concern in the UK about responsibility for signing well (page3) or sick (page 6)notes. These same issues bedevil the family doctor in the U.S. as well.