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'''Occupational medicine''' is the branch of [[Medicine|clinical medicine]] most active in the field of [[Occupational health र safety|occupational health]]. [[Occupational health physicians]] work closely with the [[occupational health]] team which consists of [[Occupational Health Nursing]] Professional, [[Industrial Hygienists]], [[Biostatisticians]], [[Public Health]] Specialists, र [[Biomedical Engineers]] (namely those specializing in [[Ergonomics]]). In the United States it is one of the three [[medical specialty|medical specialties]] (also including [[aerospace medicine]] र public health र general preventive medicine) encompassed by the [[American Board of Medical Specialties]] recognized specialty of [[preventive medicine]]. Its principal role is the provision of health advice to organisations र individuals to ensure that the highest standards of health र safety at work can be achieved र maintained. Occupational physicians must have a wide knowledge of clinical medicine र be competent in a number of important areas.

Occupational health should aim at: the promotion र maintenance of the highest degree of [[health|physical]], [[mental health|mental]] र social [[well-being]] of workers in all occupations; the prevention among workers of departures from health caused by their working conditions; the protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health; placing र maintenance of a worker in an occupational environment adapted to उनका physiological र psychological equipment and, to summarise, the adaption of work to man र of each man to उनका job.⏎
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== Areas of focus ==
=== Occupational hazards to health ===
Occupationally related disease र ill-health are an important cause of morbidity र mortality in the world. The [[occupational health]] team must be aware of the [[work hazards]], understand how to assess the risks in a particular workplace र how these should be controlled, as well as be able to recognise, treat र control occupational disease should it occur. 

=== Categories of [[Work Hazards]] (also called "[[Work Factors]]") ===
(contracted; show full)* [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/occupationalhealth.html Occupational Health] - [[MedlinePlus]]
* [http://www.joem.org Journal of Occupational र Environmental Medicine]
* [http://www.aaohn.org/ American Association of Occupational Health Nurses]

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