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The Doctor's World; Occupational Ills: How Accurately Diagnosed

Published in the 80's but still timely...

A MAJOR weakness of the American health care system is the lack of sufficient attention to occupationally related diseases, though health leaders have now begun to take important steps to help improve the situation.

Although occupationally related diseases can have implications for the whole community, reaching far beyond the patient and his or her physician, doctors have a primary responsibility for identifying them because they are usually best situated to ask the crucial questions that can link an ailment to the workplace.

Yet all too often doctors omit these questions when they probe the medical history. And patients…

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 The Doctor's World; Occupational Ills: How Accurately Diagnosed

A MAJOR weakness of the American health care system is the lack of sufficient attention to occupationally related diseases, though health leaders have now begun to take important steps to help improve the situation.

Love Save Pneumoconiosis

LSP大爱清尘, founded by Wang Keqin(王克勤), one of China’s top investigation journalists, is a non-profit organization dedicated to help more than six million migrant workers who are suffering from pneumoconiosibs in China.

European Lung White Book

Occupational diseases are often thought to be uniquely and specifically related to factors in the work environment; examples of such diseases are the pneumoconioses. However, in addition to other factors (usually related to lifestyle), occupational exposures also contribute to the development or worsening of common respiratory diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and lung cancer.

National Coalition of Black Lung and Respiratory Disease Clinics

The black lung and respiratory disease clinics in our coalition have highly trained staff who are experts in the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients with lung disease from coal mine dust exposure, as well as other occupational exposures.

Oasys and Occupational Asthma

This website contains information on Occupational Asthma and a free multi award winning computer program called OASYS, which is used to help diagnose Occupational Asthma from serial peak flow records.

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