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DeCS

Descriptor English:

Occupational Medicine

Descriptor Spanish:

Medicina del Trabajo

Descriptor Portuguese:

Medicina do Trabalho

Synonyms English:

Industrial Medicine

Tree Number:

Definition English:

Medical specialty concerned with the promotion and maintenance of the physical and mental health of employees in occupational settings.

Indexing Annotation English:

SPEC: SPEC qualif; do not confuse with OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH, the health of the worker; Manual 31.14: relation to INDUSTRY & OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; DF: OCCUP MED

See Related English:

History Note English:

79; was INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE 1963-78

Allowable Qualifiers English:

classification	economics
education	ethics
history	instrumentation
legislation & jurisprudence	manpower
methods	organization & administration
statistics & numerical data	standards
trends

Record Number:

9972

Unique Identifier:

D009787

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