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  • An occupational disease or industrial disease is any chronic ailment that occurs as a result of work or occupational activity. It is an aspect of occupational...
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  • In epidemiology, environmental diseases are diseases that can be directly attributed to environmental factors (as distinct from genetic factors or infection)...
    15 KB (1,635 words) - 19:43, 29 June 2024
  • Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM), previously called industrial medicine, is a board certified medical specialty under the American Board of...
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    of occupational diseases and injuries. These documents are submitted to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration or the Mine Safety and Health...
    26 KB (2,549 words) - 05:15, 27 August 2024
  • Occupational cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are diseases of the heart or blood vessels caused by working conditions, making them a form of occupational...
    46 KB (4,903 words) - 15:46, 11 March 2024
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    long-term risks may be an increased risk of developing occupational disease, such as cancer or heart disease. In general, adverse health effects caused by short...
    20 KB (1,982 words) - 12:34, 8 April 2024
  • Occupational lung diseases comprise a broad group of diseases, including occupational asthma, industrial bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...
    15 KB (1,685 words) - 02:31, 14 April 2024
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    hazards, and physicians and microbiologists for biological hazards (see Microbiology Tropical medicine Infection). Environmental and occupational hygienists...
    54 KB (6,577 words) - 04:31, 27 July 2024
  • vocational backgrounds when diagnosing and treating disease, and Bernardino Ramazzini in 1700 outlined many occupational ses in his book De Morbis Artificum...
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    Occupational safety and health (OSH) or occupational health and safety (OHS) is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare...
    189 KB (18,087 words) - 01:09, 27 August 2024
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    of environmental health are environmental science, toxicology, environmental epidemiology, and environmental and occupational medicine. Environmental health...
    66 KB (7,397 words) - 04:24, 19 August 2024
  • heart disease and stroke events in 2016. A number of disciplines within psychology are concerned with occupational stress including occupational health...
    73 KB (8,545 words) - 04:13, 27 May 2024
  • Occupational cancer is cancer caused by occupational hazards. Several cancers have been directly tied to occupational hazards, including chimney sweeps'...
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    hands, the head, lungs, eyes, skeleton, and skin. Occupational injuries can result from exposure to occupational hazards (physical, chemical, biological...
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    Occupational therapy (OT) is a healthcare profession that involves the use of assessment, intervention, consultation, and coaching to develop, recover...
    115 KB (13,529 words) - 07:02, 31 August 2024
  • An occupational infectious disease is an infectious disease that is contracted at the workplace. Biological hazards (biohazards) include infectious microorganisms...
    26 KB (2,700 words) - 04:16, 7 June 2024
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    the work-related burden of disease is defined as the number of deaths and DALYs that can be attributed to occupational risk factors to human health...
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    hierarchy of controls can help to prevent environmental and occupational exposures and subsequent diseases. These include:[citation needed] Elimination:...
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    and their management is a crucial aspect of occupational health and safety. Environmental hazard identification is the first step in environmental risk...
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    Black lung disease (BLD), also known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis, or simply black lung, is an occupational type of pneumoconiosis caused by long-term...
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