AIMS To review current occupational health (OH) approaches aimed at maintaining the health and workability of older workers. METHODS A literature review was undertaken to identify articles on OH interventions focused on maintaining the health of older workers (published since 2000). The inclusion criteria included studies that reported interventions aimed specifically at older workers. RESU...

The earliest recorded occupational health service in this country was that established in a cotton spinning factory at Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire. The mill was built in 1784 by Samuel Greg and his partners. They employed local labour and also some parish apprentices. Happily, Samuel Greg was a good christian and, having created a modern factory and a model village with a church and a school, ...

Since 1994, occupational health services (OHS) in the Netherlands have been provided by commercial enterprises with the market dominated by a few major organizations. The number of companies with their own internal OHS is decreasing. Most OHS employ occupational health physicians (OHP), occupational hygienists, occupational safety engineers and experts in occupational psychology. Companies with...

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...

The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion exhibits a substantialist approach to the agency-structure dichotomy. From a substantialist point of view, both individual agency and social structure come preformed and subsequently relate to and influence one another, starkly positioning the choices made by individuals against the structured sets of opportunities and constraints in reference to which ch...

OBJECTIVES The automotive industry represents the most important industrial sector in Czechia. The objective of this study has been to analyze the occurrence of occupational diseases (OD) in the automotive industry during the period from 2001 till 2014. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data on OD cases was retrieved from the National Registry of OD. Further, we conducted a survey in automotive companies ...

UCD Occupational Health Services is a covered entity under the provisions of the Federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, which requires health care providers to notify patients of their right to privacy of their Protected Health Information (PHI). This rule also gives patients many rights regarding the use and disclosure of their PHI. Patients are infor...