OBJECTIVE To examine the opinion of patients of an occupational diseases hospital on the quality of provision of occupational medicine services in Turkey. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 189 patients were interviewed using a 13-item survey about their jobs and workplaces. RESULTS The overall results of this study were as follows: 80.4% of the patients stated that physicians were located at...

Occupational asthma may be defined as asthma induced by exposure to an inhaled agent (or agents) in the workplace. Its presentation is sometimes dramatic. Occupational exposure to platinum salts, for example, has been known to induce asthma in over 50% of an exposed workforce. For those affected, the consequences are often devastating, while the economic effects for an industry may be no less p...

Occupational therapy is involved in disability prevention and health enhancement through the prevention of occupational dysfunction. Although many occupational dysfunction scales exist, no standard method is available for the assessment and classification of occupational dysfunction, which may include occupational imbalance, occupational deprivation, occupational alienation, and occupational ma...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to develop a model of basic occupational health services (BOHS) in Baoan, which could provide occupational health services (OHS) universally for workers and control occupational hazards. METHODS Steps involved in the BOHS strategy included construction of the BOHS system, capacity building, health training and education, surveillance of workplaces and the h...

Occupational asthma is the most common form of occupational lung disease in the developed world at the present time. In this review, the epidemiology, pathogenesis/mechanisms, clinical presentations, management, and prevention of occupational asthma are discussed. The population attributable risk of asthma due to occupational exposures is considerable. Current understanding of the mechanisms by...

background : exposure to formaldehyde (fa) causes irritative effects and induces nasopharyngeal cancer; the interna­tional agency for research on cancer (iarc, lyon) classified fa as carcinogenic to humans, group 1. many studies have been published so far concerning the occupational exposure of industrial workers, embalmers, pathologists and anatomists to fa but very few data regarding medical ...

occupational asthma is defined as “a disease of variable airflow limitations and/or airway hyper-responsiveness due to causes and conditions attributable to a particular occupational environment and not stimuli that are being encountered outside the workplace.” an analysis of general population-based studies published up to 2007 showed that 17.6% of all adultonset asthma is due to workplace exp...