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Improving Education and Training to Reduce the Burden of Occupational Cancer. The Riga-European Association of Schools of Occupational Medicine (EASOM) Statement on Work-Related Cancer

Reducing the burden of occupational cancers (OCs) is currently one of the most challenging Occupational Health (OH) issues. The European Union (EU) has made efforts to improve the existing legal framework and developed specific legislation aimed at reducing the burden of OC. However, available data...

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Autores principales: Martínez-Jarreta, Begoña, Majery, Nicole, Bulat, Petar, Jungewelter, Soile, Păuncu, Elena-Ana, Weigel, Dieter, Bubas, Marija, Škerjanc, Alenka, Vanadzins, Ivars, Eglite, Maija, Larrosa, Marcos, Stocks, Susan Jill, Godderis, Lode
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7178232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32231054
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072279
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author Martínez-Jarreta, Begoña
Majery, Nicole
Bulat, Petar
Jungewelter, Soile
Păuncu, Elena-Ana
Weigel, Dieter
Bubas, Marija
Škerjanc, Alenka
Vanadzins, Ivars
Eglite, Maija
Larrosa, Marcos
Stocks, Susan Jill
Godderis, Lode
author_facet Martínez-Jarreta, Begoña
Majery, Nicole
Bulat, Petar
Jungewelter, Soile
Păuncu, Elena-Ana
Weigel, Dieter
Bubas, Marija
Škerjanc, Alenka
Vanadzins, Ivars
Eglite, Maija
Larrosa, Marcos
Stocks, Susan Jill
Godderis, Lode
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description Reducing the burden of occupational cancers (OCs) is currently one of the most challenging Occupational Health (OH) issues. The European Union (EU) has made efforts to improve the existing legal framework and developed specific legislation aimed at reducing the burden of OC. However, available data suggest that OC are underreported. In August 2019, the European Association of Schools of Occupational Medicine (EASOM) adopted a statement that highlighted the importance of improving the education and training of Medical Doctors (MDs) to facilitate improvements in recognizing and reporting OC. To achieve this, EASOM proposes to promote OH education and training of MDs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, foster harmonization of OH education and teaching standards and programs across EU countries, and enhance cooperation between universities and international scientific associations. Finally, we suggest that occupational data should be recorded in cancer and medical registers. By engaging MDs more fully in the debate about OCs, they will become more aware of the Occupational Physician’s role in reducing the burden of OCs and, furthermore, embed consideration of occupation as a potential cause of cancer into their own practice. These interventions will help promote the implementation of policies and interventions aimed to reduce OC in the workplace.
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spelling pubmed-71782322020-04-28 Improving Education and Training to Reduce the Burden of Occupational Cancer. The Riga-European Association of Schools of Occupational Medicine (EASOM) Statement on Work-Related Cancer Martínez-Jarreta, Begoña Majery, Nicole Bulat, Petar Jungewelter, Soile Păuncu, Elena-Ana Weigel, Dieter Bubas, Marija Škerjanc, Alenka Vanadzins, Ivars Eglite, Maija Larrosa, Marcos Stocks, Susan Jill Godderis, Lode Int J Environ Res Public Health Conference Report Reducing the burden of occupational cancers (OCs) is currently one of the most challenging Occupational Health (OH) issues. The European Union (EU) has made efforts to improve the existing legal framework and developed specific legislation aimed at reducing the burden of OC. However, available data suggest that OC are underreported. In August 2019, the European Association of Schools of Occupational Medicine (EASOM) adopted a statement that highlighted the importance of improving the education and training of Medical Doctors (MDs) to facilitate improvements in recognizing and reporting OC. To achieve this, EASOM proposes to promote OH education and training of MDs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, foster harmonization of OH education and teaching standards and programs across EU countries, and enhance cooperation between universities and international scientific associations. Finally, we suggest that occupational data should be recorded in cancer and medical registers. By engaging MDs more fully in the debate about OCs, they will become more aware of the Occupational Physician’s role in reducing the burden of OCs and, furthermore, embed consideration of occupation as a potential cause of cancer into their own practice. These interventions will help promote the implementation of policies and interventions aimed to reduce OC in the workplace. MDPI 2020-03-28 2020-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7178232/ /pubmed/32231054 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072279 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Martínez-Jarreta, Begoña
Majery, Nicole
Bulat, Petar
Jungewelter, Soile
Păuncu, Elena-Ana
Weigel, Dieter
Bubas, Marija
Škerjanc, Alenka
Vanadzins, Ivars
Eglite, Maija
Larrosa, Marcos
Stocks, Susan Jill
Godderis, Lode
Improving Education and Training to Reduce the Burden of Occupational Cancer. The Riga-European Association of Schools of Occupational Medicine (EASOM) Statement on Work-Related Cancer
title Improving Education and Training to Reduce the Burden of Occupational Cancer. The Riga-European Association of Schools of Occupational Medicine (EASOM) Statement on Work-Related Cancer
title_full Improving Education and Training to Reduce the Burden of Occupational Cancer. The Riga-European Association of Schools of Occupational Medicine (EASOM) Statement on Work-Related Cancer
title_fullStr Improving Education and Training to Reduce the Burden of Occupational Cancer. The Riga-European Association of Schools of Occupational Medicine (EASOM) Statement on Work-Related Cancer
title_full_unstemmed Improving Education and Training to Reduce the Burden of Occupational Cancer. The Riga-European Association of Schools of Occupational Medicine (EASOM) Statement on Work-Related Cancer
title_short Improving Education and Training to Reduce the Burden of Occupational Cancer. The Riga-European Association of Schools of Occupational Medicine (EASOM) Statement on Work-Related Cancer
title_sort improving education and training to reduce the burden of occupational cancer. the riga-european association of schools of occupational medicine (easom) statement on work-related cancer
topic Conference Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7178232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32231054
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072279
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