Occupational Health and National Development

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Setting national targets to improve occupational health.

This paper describes a national strategy to improve occupational health and a longitudinal view of a 15 year project undertaken in the UK, logging the key developments. The first results should become apparent in 2005. Progress will be reported.

Occupational medicine in the National Health Service.

For many doctors working within the National Health Service (NHS), occupational medicine remains a specialty on the fringe of their awareness. Undergraduate exposure to the subject is limited in most medical schools and at postgraduate level health and safety training in relation to medical work is given little emphasis. The fact that the majority of those who work in occupational medicine are ...

Development of Occupational Health Measures for the National Health Security Preparedness Index

The 2001 World Trade Center and 2005 Hurricane disasters, and the 2014 Ebola outbreak were major events that tasked the United States' public health emergency preparedness and response apparatus. The health and economic cost of these events is huge including over 4000 deaths and damages to infrastructure worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Unfortunately, the U.S. labor force was disproportio...

The National Occupational Health Survey of Mining.