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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...
    14 KB (1,545 words) - 17:35, 19 April 2024
  • Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM), previously called industrial medicine, is a board certified medical specialty under the American Board of...
    10 KB (796 words) - 15:10, 19 April 2024
  • In epidemiology, environmental diseases are diseases that can be directly attributed to environmental factors (as distinct from genetic factors or infection)...
    15 KB (1,641 words) - 01:29, 26 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 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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    outcomes, and other chronic diseases. Reduce occupational hearing loss. Reduce occupational immune, infectious, and dermal disease. Reduce occupational musculoskeletal...
    28 KB (2,805 words) - 01:00, 5 May 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 (6,581 words) - 07:42, 14 April 2024
  • vocational backgrounds when diagnosing and treating disease, and Bernardino Ramazzini in 1700 outlined many occupational ses in his book De Morbis Artificum...
    8 KB (904 words) - 08:38, 18 March 2024
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    occupational environment. According to the official estimates of the United Nations, the WHO/ILO Joint Estimate of the Work-related Burden of Disease...
    189 KB (18,074 words) - 00:54, 21 May 2024
  • heart disease and stroke events in 2016. A number of disciplines within psychology are concerned with occupational stress including occupational health...
    73 KB (8,541 words) - 23:01, 24 April 2024
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    Occupational therapy (OT) is a healthcare profession that involves the use of assessment and intervention to develop, recover, or maintain the meaningful...
    102 KB (12,369 words) - 05:58, 4 April 2024
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    of environmental health are environmental science, toxicology, environmental epidemiology, and environmental and occupational medicine. Environmental health...
    55 KB (7,205 words) - 00:58, 16 May 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) - 00:28, 7 April 2024
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    hands, the head, lungs, eyes, skeleton, and skin. Occupational injuries can result from exposure to occupational hazards (physical, chemical, biological...
    26 KB (3,064 words) - 17:47, 27 September 2023
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    workplace injury, are addressed by Occupational Safety and Health officers. They also assess and control environmental factors that can potentially affect...
    26 KB (2,901 words) - 20:27, 4 April 2024
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    Black lung disease (BLD), also known as coal-mine dust lung disease, or simply black lung, is an occupational type of pneumoconiosis caused by long-term...
    28 KB (3,286 words) - 04:16, 22 May 2024
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    hierarchy of controls can help to prevent environmental and occupational exposures and subsequent diseases. These include:[citation needed] Elimination:...
    16 KB (1,723 words) - 05:28, 2 January 2024
  • materials Disease prevention Emergency preparedness and response Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) The Health and Safety Executive...
    11 KB (1,140 words) - 11:45, 14 March 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...
    30 KB (3,890 words) - 04:27, 25 April 2024
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