History of work-related diseases as a tool to protect the health of workers.

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• Personal Author:
  Blanc PD ; Naidoo RN ; Torén, Kjell
• Description:
  Historical events and trends, despite being a cornerstone of public health generally, are often relegated to little more than a footnote in the biomedical literature. This is all the more so the case for occupational and environmental health, despite a long-held recognition that working conditions impact wellbeing, from classical Greek and Roman texts onward. Indeed, attention to history not only has played a pivotal role in our understanding of how workplace exposures have affected the lives of workers and their families in the past, but also can better prepare us to intervene in current and anticipated future, emerging exposures. ... To ensure that there continues to be a systematic approach to documenting the history of occupational and environmental diseases, the International Commission on Occupational Health formed the Scientific Committee on the History of Prevention of Occupational and Environmental Diseases. The latter has been responsible for the organizing of periodic international conferences as well as training programmes for researchers. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Scientific Committee continued its activities through online platforms. The recent webinar with the intentionally ironic title, "Reconsidering the Politics of Occupational Health in a World without Industrial Work," focusing on the theme of labour, health and the South African mining industry, past, present and future. The Scientific Committee plans to host its next webinar in February 2022, provisionally planned to be hosted at Science Po, Paris and the seventh full and an "in-person" international conference tentatively to be held in Durban, South Africa in May 2024. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Exposure Epidemiology Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Occupational health; Environmental health; Epidemiology; Environmental exposure; Occupational exposure; Information dissemination
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.1-6
• ISSN:
  0019-8366
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  201-203
• Volume:
  59
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065586
• Citation:
  Ind Health 2021 Sep; 59(4):201-203
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  University of California, Berkeley
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Industrial Health
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:58ff3d42b51340b2e4170b5a10a3b41a7b9d982e510b9ded4e85d6729e179bbdc6944769536cc0cddf9eeb86139b2cccc9c0643e08ad1f4437dc5e384a2fac53
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248983/cdc_248983_DS1.pdf
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