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From:Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: P. Nayak Our senior colleague Dr. Naren A. Shah (75 years) passed away on Saturday, 15 July 2006. Dr. Naren Shah was founder member of Ahmedabad Branch and served as Hon. Medical Officer to Gujarat State...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 433) Peer-Reviewed"Disappointed", "incredibly disappointed", "deeply disappointed", "short-sighted", "sad", "a great loss" – the response to the announcement in July that the Health and Work Development Unit (HWDU) is to close...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 430) Peer-ReviewedOccupational health practitioners would like to see the proposed new single body for the profession called the “College of Occupational Health”, according to a poll.The name came top in a survey of more than...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 431) Peer-ReviewedPublic Health England (PHE) has thrown its weight and funding behind the ongoing work by the Council for Work and Health to map out a future blueprint for training and workforce planning for occupational and workplace...
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From:Student BMJPeer-ReviewedMary Sherry left school at 16 because she didn't want to do any exams but has had a successful career in catering and medicine. So what happened? Ruth Burnett and Monica Desai find out Mary Sherry came into medicine...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 434) Peer-ReviewedWith a predicted seven billion mobile smartphone owners*worldwide by the end of 2014 (according to*International Telecommunication Union figures from May 2014)*and increasing*numbers of applications downloaded on a...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 378) Peer-ReviewedMaking reasonable adjustments for disabled employees presents affected employers with something of a dilemma in deciding what, legally, can be considered reasonable. OH plays a key part in these decisions, as John...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 430) Peer-ReviewedMore than 600 students at the University of Derby were contacted in April to be called back for blood tests after serious failings were identified in the testing procedures carried out by a healthcare worker contracted...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 202) Peer-ReviewedNHS Plus could provide a standard for occupational health specialists nationally as well as within the NHS through standards developed in its OH Clinical Effectiveness Unit, said Dr Kit Harling, head of NHS Plus. He...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 59) Peer-ReviewedIntroducing the diary of a hard-pressed OH manager Monday morning. Brilliant! And I'm not even joking. Unlike most of my colleagues, who seem to see work as the biggest challenge of their life, I actually look...
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From:Industrial Health (Vol. 55, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: A good cooperation between occupational physicians and other healthcare professionals is essential in order to achieve an overall improvement of workers/patients' well-being. Unfortunately, collaboration...
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From:Industrial Health (Vol. 57, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedHealth practitioners and decision makers in the medical and insurance systems need knowledge on the work-relatedness of burnout. To gather the most reliable information regarding burnout diagnosis and recognition in...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 426) Peer-ReviewedGetting workplace health promotions right takes more than just a roadshow, says occupational health nurse practitioner Karen Coomer.Picture the scene - employees attending a roadshow or lifestyle clinic and leaving with...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 426) Peer-ReviewedThe NHS Health at Work network has warned of "a growing body of anecdotal evidence" suggesting that employers are failing to recognise the value of NHS occupational health (OH) staff - in particular specialist nurses...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 376) Peer-ReviewedReflecting current efforts to modernise occupational health services in the NHS could allow employers to realise significant improvements in health and wellbeing services. All employers must have concern for the...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 427) Peer-ReviewedOccupational health practitioners are sometimes engaged in the vaccination of workers against vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs). David Murana, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, looks at what...
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From:Student BMJPeer-ReviewedMention "occupational medicine" to a medical student or to a doctor in the first few years of training, and you are likely to be met with a blank expression. Few students, pre-registration house officers, or senior...
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From:Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: J. Vijay Rao Dr. Mahesh Chandra Dutta born on 1-1-46 at Dhaka (now in Bangladesh). Graduated from Assam Medical College Gauhati. Diploma in child health from Hafkins Medical Institute, New Delhi joined BARC...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 428) Peer-ReviewedOur new series looking at professions allied to occupational health (OH) begins with an update on the work of occupational hygienists. Martin Stear, a chartered occupational hygienist and registrar of the Faculty of...
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From:Occupational Health (Issue 202) Peer-ReviewedOccupational health should be free to all at the point of delivery through the NHS and occupational health physicians should take clinical leadership on how it is developed, according to the Society of Occupational...