Proceedings of the Special Foreign Currency Program Symposium, October 1970, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Via the Special Foreign Currency Program (Public Law) 480) Research Agreements, the Health Services and Mental Health Administration, through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, supported in Poland and Yugoslavia twelve different research projects on industrial health in 1970. This research was diverse in nature, sampling areas of toxicology, physical stress, chest disease and epidemiology, and utilizing a variety of laboratory, and field methods for attaining needed data. Sufficient progress had been made in each of these projects so that important information had become available and could be shared with other scientists working on similar or related problems. In order to accomplish this exchange of information a Symposium of Principal Investigators and U.S. Project Officers for the Research Agreements in Yugoslavia and Poland was held in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. Aside from providing new information on timely problems in occupational health, the Symposium served to promote cross-fertilization of ideas among specialists with different backgrounds working in the same project areas or different ones. This latter interaction offered excellent possibilities for radically new approaches to old problems or for crystallizing new research leads. The Symposium also afforded an opportunity to develop some unification in the overall program of PL 480 supported research concerned with industrial health. The agenda consisted of Principal Investigators presenting papers summarizing progress on the twelve Research Agreements which were grouped into toxicology, heat stress, and other physical hazards, and dust and related chest diseases. A general introduction to each project was given by the designated U.S. Project Officer and time was allowed for discussion and comment following each presentation. The final day of the Symposium consisted of a series of round-table discussions on issues in different problem areas, raised in the course of the meeting, hopefully producing new research leads. The general format of the Symposium was developed by Dr. Alexander Cohen, and Dr. Milos Kilibarda during discussions in Belgrade in February 1970. All of the Principal Investigators communicated in English, so no translation was required. The Proceedings of this Symposium include project presentation and relevant comments to them and the round-table discussions. In the compilation of the papers only minimal essential additional changes were made in order to maintain the sense and flavor of each Principal Investigator. We are grateful to the authors of the papers, to all the participants for the discussion, to the staff of the Serbian Institute of Occupational and Radiological Health, to the staff of the American Embassy in Belgrade, to Dr. Milos Kilibarda, Dr. Alexander Cohen, Mrs. Joan Baugus for the many hours she spent on the manuscripts, and especially to Mr. August Lawnan for his design of the cover sheet.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Food-Processing Industry Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Preceptorship Safety
• Keywords:
  Coal Dust Industrial Hygiene Occupational Health Respiratory Diseases Toxicology
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-369
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057380
• Citation:
  Henschel A ed. Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1970 Oct; :1-369
• Editor(s):
  Henschel A
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1971
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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