RT Book, Section
A1 LaDou, Joseph
A2 LaDou, Joseph
A2 Harrison, Robert J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1104100094
T1 International Occupational & Environmental Health
T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment:  Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 5e
YR 2013
FD 2013
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071808156
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1104100094
RD 2024/04/24
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.