Occupational Health (OH) is an important chapter of
Public Health but its visibility is poor and
continues to decrease. Examples of this worrying trend
show that it impacts on our society regarding
health of the working population and the retired
individuals and on the economy through huge
expenses for health, absenteeism, psychosocial
problems, loss of performance and quality of work,
etc. Moreover, all the partners involved in OH have to
take their responsibility of this matter. Beside
the prevention of diseases, the health and wellbeing
promotion has to be improved. The OH
professionals have to enlarge the scope of their expertise;
the academic institutions and research and
education centers have to give more support to OH and
the social partners and the decision-makers
(politicians) have to put OH in their priorities. This
paper is not a review of the new dimensions of OH
but an overview of the emerging issues that have to be
developed, based on the author’s experience
of more than 40 years.
Author
(s) Details
Michel
P. Guillemin
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland and
Association Santé Globale & Travail, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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