Tuberculosis and the health worker.

The health of the worker.

The health of the worker must nowadays be considered against a background of improved social conditions, of death rates which have fallen continuously for a century, and of a reduction in communicable diseases. At one time industrial medicine was preoccupied with the direct and demonstrably harmful effects of certain occupations on health (Schilling, 1956). Now that many of these situations hav...

Health of the Industrial Worker

Health Status, Health Insurance, and Worker Mobility:

Hepatitis B and the health care worker.

Is it safe for HCWs to be vaccinated during pregnancy? Yes. Pregnant women in occupations with a high risk of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection (e.g., HCWs who have a potential for exposure to blood) should be vaccinated. Hepatitis B vaccine contains no components that have been shown to pose a risk to the fetus at any time during gestation. An acute (or chronic) HBV infection in a pregnant wom...

Worker Safety and Health : The Swedish Difference

In this book, Steven Kelman of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government compares the behavior of two government agencies with similar missions: the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the United States and the Arbetarskyddsverket or Worker Protection Board in Sweden. As James Q. Wilson notes in a preface, Kelman emerges with a paradox: in "[t]he United States, that pre-eminent commer...