TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - International Occupational & Environmental Health A1 - LaDou, Joseph A2 - LaDou, Joseph A2 - Harrison, Robert J. PY - 2013 T2 - CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 5e AB - The world's workforce sustains more than 250 million injuries every year. Included in this number are 2 million people killed by their work each year. Occupational illnesses attributed to hazardous exposures or workloads may be as numerous as occupational injuries. The lack of adequate surveillance of occupational disease prevents accurate assessment of the problem. The global epidemic of occupational injury and disease is not new. It is inherent in the nature of industrial development that poorer countries adopt hazardous production. The resultant epidemic of injuries and illnesses is compounded by the rapid transfer by developed countries of hazardous industries no longer compatible with host country government regulation. While international standards attempt to obligate employers to pay for occupational injury and disease, inadequate prevention, detection, and compensation make a mockery of these standards. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1104100094 ER -