Basic concept of occupational health – This book covers the entire syllabus of “Community Health Nursing” prescribed by the Universities of Bangladesh- for Basic and diploma nursing students. We tried to accommodate latest information and topics.
This book is examination friendly setup according to the teachers’ lectures and examination’s questions. At the end of the book previous university questions are given. We hope in touch with the book students’ knowledge will be upgraded and flourished. The unique way of presentation may make your reading of the book a pleasurable experience.
Basic concept of occupational health
Occupational health
Occupational Health is the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations by preventing departures from health, controlling risks and the adaptation of work to people, and people to their jobs.
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Occupational health is the branch of medical and engineering sciences which is concerned with the study of the effects of the adverse environmental conditions in the place of employment upon the health of workers and the protection of workers from these adverse conditions through application of promotive, preventive and curative medicine and sanitary engineering.
Industrial health
A branch of public health concerned with the health and well-being of workers. Its aims are to eliminate hazards and reduce industrial fatigue in the workplace.
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Industrial health is an aspect of the healthcare profession concerned with the safety and health of people in the workplace. It includes everything from treatment of workplace-related illnesses to identification and management of risks to make workplaces safer.
Occupational or work environment
Occupational environment is meant “the sum of external conditions and influences which prevail at the place of work and which have a bearing on the health of the working population”
There are basically 3 types of interaction in an occupational environment as follows-
- Man and physical, chemical and biologic agents,
- Man and Machine,
- Man and man
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