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Occupational Health

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Work should ideally contribute to good health and wellbeing as well as to individual and national economic prosperity. All too often and for all too many people especially in developing countries it does not. Employees are threatened by a wide range of physical, biological, chemical, work organisation and psychosocial hazards in their work that lead to a heavy toll of occupationally caused and occupationally related ill-health. That is why commentators have described the modern workplace as a battlefield with casualties that have often exceeded those in major wars. The public health consequences of such large-scale mortality and morbidity are considerable.

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Watterson, A. (2003). Occupational Health. In: Watterson, A. (eds) Public Health in Practice. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-21421-7_9

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