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New concept for occupational health development: 3 phases

Occupational health development in a country can be classifiedinto 3 phases as External, Internal (or Personal), and Social Environmental Phases. Occupational health usually focuses on work environment, but it cannot advance without controlling workers’ health and cannot be achieved without a compli...

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Autor principal: KANG, Seong-Kyu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4380597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25832356
http://dx.doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.53-109
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Sumario:Occupational health development in a country can be classifiedinto 3 phases as External, Internal (or Personal), and Social Environmental Phases. Occupational health usually focuses on work environment, but it cannot advance without controlling workers’ health and cannot be achieved without a complimentary understanding of the social security system. Society may con-tinue wasting social costs for determining whether a disease of workers is caused by or arising from work. In order to understand the status of occupational diseases in a country, one must know about the comprehensiveness of the social security system in that society.