Occupational Health: Pocket Consultant

Offering a balance of theory and practice, with guides for further reading, this is a clinical guide for the practitioner in the widest sense: physicians, nurses, occupational hygienists, safety officers, environmental, health officers and personnel managers. With coverage of both medicine and hygiene, and including sections on OH law, it is a primer for appropriate courses and provides all that the interested medical student would need to know.

Spis treści:
1 Introduction.
2 Occupational health services – an international perspective.
3 Occupational diseases.
4 Occupational infections.
5 Occupational toxicology.
6 Occupational hygiene – gases, vapours, dusts and fibres.
7 Physical hazards – light, heat, noise, vibration, pressure, and radiation.
8 Musculoskeletal disorders.
9 Psychosocial aspects of the workplace.
10 Risk assessment.
11 Control of air–borne contaminants.
12 Personal protection of the worker.
13 Special issues in occupational health.
14 Legal aspects of occupational health.
15 Sources of information

Nota biograficzna:
Dr Ching Aw, Professor, University of Kent at Canterbury
Dr Kerry Gardiner was the Acting–Director of the Institute of Occupational Health (IOH), University of Birmingham, from mid–2000 to early 2003. He joined the Institute in 1987, having gained approximately a year′s field experience as a consultant in London directly after graduating with a degree in Occupational Hygiene. His career at the IOH started as a Research Associate with specific responsibility for a large trans–European respiratory morbidity study; from which he gained his PhD. Despite a multitude of interests his particular area of research revolves around the use of exposure data in exposure–response analyses. Over time, he was appointed to a Lectureship, followed in 1997 by a Senior Lectureship. From March 2000 until April 2001, he was the President of the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS); during this term he spent his time ensuring that the Society contributed actively to Securing Health Together and trying to persuade other Learned/Professional Bodies to work actively together to address the essential tenet of disease/illness prevention. He is currently visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Malcolm Harrington – CBE, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCP, FFOM, FFOM(1), FACE, FPHM, Emeritus Professor of Occupational Health, Univeristy of Birmingham.

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Offering a balance of theory and practice, with guides for further reading, this is a clinical guide for the practitioner in the widest sense: physicians, nurses, occupational hygienists, safety officers, environmental, health officers and personnel managers. With coverage of both medicine and hygiene, and including sections on OH law, it is a primer for appropriate courses and provides all that the interested medical student would need to know.