Occupational Medicine
Overview
Occupational Medicine is a scientific journal, published since 1986 in English. The journal's country of origin is United States and its primary focus area is occupational medicine.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Occup Med
Start
1986
End
2002
Frequency
Quarterly
p-ISSN
0885-114X
Country
United States
Language
English
Specialty
Occupational Medicine
Recent Articles
1.
Fink P
Occup Med
. 2002 Sep;
17(4):701-7.
PMID: 12225939
Employer-initiated psychiatric evaluations raise a number of ethical issues particular to mental health in the workplace. This article addresses the ethical concerns and potential legal implications of psychiatrist and employee...
2.
Salomon B
Occup Med
. 2002 Sep;
17(4):693-700.
PMID: 12225938
Team physicians act as occupational physicians in many traditional ways. However, they face unique ethical challenges when caring for athletes. Sports physicians must be cognizant of special aspects of the...
3.
Forst L, Levenstein C
Occup Med
. 2002 Sep;
17(4):687-92.
PMID: 12225937
Occupational health has always operated at the intersection of corporate economic concerns and worker health. Conflicting demands on the loyalty of occupational health professionals by the interests of labor and...
4.
Protecting posterity: the occupational physician's ethical and legal obligations to pregnant workers
Feitshans I
Occup Med
. 2002 Sep;
17(4):673-85.
PMID: 12225936
This article describes Federal and international codes and laws that relate to protection from reproductive hazards in the workplace. Occupational health practitioners are advised to shift their approach from managing...
5.
McCunney R
Occup Med
. 2002 Sep;
17(4):665-72.
PMID: 12225935
The human genome project has led to impressive scientific advances in understanding the genetic basis of disease. To date, genetic risks associated with occupational illnesses are not well understood. Recent...
6.
Cone J
Occup Med
. 2002 Sep;
17(4):657-63.
PMID: 12225934
Occupational disease outbreak investigations usually involve rapid, small-scale analysis of reports of diseases with a suspected occupational etiology, usually in a single workplace or among workers of a single employer....
7.
Ward E, Hurrell J, Colligan M
Occup Med
. 2002 Sep;
17(4):637-55.
PMID: 12225933
This is an overview of ethical issues in occupational health research involving human subjects. Research that requires human subjects review must be distinguished from surveillance or public health practice. Confidentiality...
8.
Lewis K
Occup Med
. 2002 Sep;
17(4):625-35.
PMID: 12225932
Occupational physicians are frequently participants in a legal arena in which the interests of the patient are in conflict with those of the patient's employer. What is best for the...
9.
Mitchell C
Occup Med
. 2002 Sep;
17(4):617-23.
PMID: 12225931
Confidentiality of personal medical information is a serious concern in occupational medicine. New regulations issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountablility Act (HIPAA) significantly alter procedures for protecting and...
10.
Deubner D, Sturm R
Occup Med
. 2002 Sep;
17(4):607-15.
PMID: 12225930
In a departure from the usual Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews article, this piece comprises responses from two occupational physicians to the question of how balance is achieved...