How much do workers' health examinations add to health and safety at the workplace? occupational preventive usefulness of routine health examinations
Despite no evidence in favour, routine workers' health examinations, mostly pre-employment and periodic, are extensively performed worldwide with important allocation of resources. In Spain they are performed within a theoretical job-specific health surveillance system. Our objective was to asc...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) |
| Repositorio: | O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/92796 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10609/92796 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | estudios transversales medicina del trabajo salud laboral servicios de salud del trabajador lugar de trabajo vigilancia en salud pública administración de la seguridad asignación de recursos cross-sectional studies occupational health occupational medicine occupational health services workplace public health surveillance safety management resource allocation estudis transversals medicina del treball salut laboral serveis de salut del treballador lloc de treball vigilància en salut pública administració de la seguretat assignació de recursos Industrial hygiene Salut en el treball Salud en el trabajo |
| Sumario: | Despite no evidence in favour, routine workers' health examinations, mostly pre-employment and periodic, are extensively performed worldwide with important allocation of resources. In Spain they are performed within a theoretical job-specific health surveillance system. Our objective was to ascertain their occupational preventive usefulness from the perspective of occupational health professionals. |
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