Prospects for the development of occupational epidemiology.docVIP

Prospects for the development of occupational epidemiology Occupational epidemiology is the study of working conditions on workers’ health, study of occupational diseases in the occupational groups, development, distribution and control laws, occupational hazards of and to determine the safe level of exposure for people, for the evaluation and development health standards to provide a scientific basis [1]. using epidemiological methods to study populations in industrial identify occupational factors may be caused by lung cancer, bladder cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or determine the impact of coronary heart disease, rheumatism and other causes in The only way the labor factor. A history of occupational epidemiology Epidemiology and occupational epidemiology is the Occupational Health, Occupational Medicine mutual penetration of an edge of the discipline as a discipline, there is no record of its exact origin, the system’s use of epidemiological methods of occupational risk factors on the occupational groups is nearly half a century before the rise of the domestic use of technologies for occupational epidemiology studies began in the 1950s, the late 1970s, began a more systematic approach to the use of occupational epidemiological studies [1] In recent years, domestic and international use of the method of occupational epidemiology studies is gradually increasing. 2 types of occupational epidemiological study design Cross-sectional study, that is, by occupational groups within a specific time of the disease or health status variables and a description of the relationship, grasp the occupational groups, the distribution of diseases or health conditions, provide clues to the cause [2] in the history of occupational medicine, with a cross-sectional face survey conducted large-scale study, the actual value can make a scientific conclusion, but also the prevention and treatment of occupational diseases played an important role in the mana