Occupational medicine: the way ahead.
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1995;52:781-784 Occupational medicine: the way ahead
Editor-Seaton and Agius are right.' Occupational medicine is too important to remain either a luxury optional extra, or an industrial and academic ghetto. Over two million people every year have ill health because of their work. More days of work are lost because of occupational asthma than strikes, and work related asbestos diseases are set to become the biggest single killer of adult men. Tra...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.53.1.71-b