BACKGROUND Asthma is among the most common chronic diseases in working-aged populations and occupational exposures are important causal agents. Our aims were to evaluate the best methods to assess occurrence, public health impact, and burden to society related to occupational or work-related asthma and to achieve comparable estimates for different populations. METHODS We addressed three centr...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the process of a job-specific workers' health surveillance (WHS) in improving occupational health care for construction workers. METHODS From January to July 2012 were 899 bricklayers and supervisors invited for the job-specific WHS at three locations of one occupational health service throughout the Netherlands. The intervention aimed at detecting signs of work-related...

Decades of research have documented continuous tension between anthropocentric needs and the environment's capacity to accommodate those needs and support basic human welfare. The way in which society perceives, manages, and ultimately utilizes natural resources can be influenced by underlying environmental ethics, or the moral relationship that humans share with the natural world. This discour...

The Global Health Network and globalization of higher education

satisfaction surveys have become the primary means of evaluating perceptions of quality in the health care industry, including occupational health services. In occupational health, nurses need to know not only it injured workers are satisfied with their case, but also if injured workers' employers believe heath care provided to their workers was satisfactory. One problem is the lack of publishe...

An important challenge to occupational health services in Japan is the necessary shift from regulation-based occupational health program to health risk-based program. The Occupational Safety and Health Management System (OSHMS) is an effective tool for introducing risk-based activities. To date, the Five Management system has been used to manage occupational health activities. This classificati...

It is becoming increasingly important for providers of health care to manage the health and safety of their workforce effectively. In the competitive world of health care, organizations seeking accreditation for quality are having to allot greater importance to health and safety than in the past. The manager of occupational health services for West Birmingham Health District, which has recently...

original article   introduction: good service quality is the company's ability to meet or exceed customer expectations or the degree of discrepancy between customer expectations and perceptions about the quality of offered service. this study was aimed to examine the quality gap of occupational health services in an oil & gas company of iran. method: this cross-sectional study was done between ...

BACKGROUND Current evidence about the experiences of doctors who are unwell is limited to poor quality data. AIM To investigate GPs' experiences of significant illness, and how this affects their own subsequent practice. DESIGN OF STUDY Qualitative study using interpretative phenomenological analysis to conduct and analyse semi-structured interviews with GPs who have experienced significant...