Occupational health deals with all aspects of health and safety in the workplace and has a strong focus on primary prevention of hazards. The health of the workers has several determinants, including risk factors at the workplace leading to cancers, accidents, musculoskeletal diseases, respiratory diseases, hearing loss, circulatory diseases, stress related disorders and communicable diseases and others.
Occupational medicine is focused on achieving all healthcare aspects in various occupations, and performing regulatory examinations for an effective prevention and appropriate management of work-related illnesses. Holistic Medical Centre has a team with more than 9 years of experience in the field of Occupational Health and Healthcare. We assure you highest standards of Occupational Healthcare excellence.
Occupational medicine is focused on achieving all healthcare aspects in various occupations, and performing regulatory examinations for an effective prevention and appropriate management of work-related illnesses. Holistic Medical Centre has a team with more than 9 years of experience in the field of Occupational Health and Healthcare. We assure you highest standards of Occupational Healthcare excellence.Throughout the historyof occupationalmedicine,workplace risks and danger have been shaped by the forces that shape work itself, and demographic changes in the workforce,shifting modes of production andtransferring economic powers. The influence of work on health can be traced to the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, written approximately 1700 BC. One of the first occupational physicians that served military forces, and Galen was physician to Roman gladiators. Finger and wrist guards worn by Bronze Age archers represent early personal protective equipment. Writers of the classic period mention diseases and hazards of miners, and Pliny (1st century AD) mentions veils to cover the face. In the Middle East Rhazes included occupation in his case studies (9th century). Thefocused attention of the appearance of a public health movement in the mid-1800s was on the livingconditions, poor nutrition, povertyand the conditions of the factories that caused high stress, while payed the minimum attention to specific workplace hazards.