[Occupational medicine--origins and perspectives]
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1Arbejds- og miljømedicinsk Klinik, Bispebjerg Hospital, DK-2400 København NV. jpb@bbh.regionh.dk
Abstract:
Technological innovation and preventive measures have had a major impact on the occurrence of occupational disease in Denmark over the past 50 years, although some diseases such as asbestos-related cancer are still being diagnosed. The main challenges for modern occupational medicine is to unravel if low-level exposure in critical, narrow time windows during development have consequences for later chronic conditions like infertility, allergy and cardiovascular disease, to develop strategies to counteract premature expulsion from work because of musculoskeletal disorders and to learn when and how psychosocial workplace factors are detrimental to health.
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