Occupational medicine

Occupational medicine is both a branch of clinical medicine and preventive medicine. It is often collectively referred to as occupational health. In a narrow sense, occupational medicine is mainly targeted at individuals and occupational health is mainly targeted at people. The scope of work is divided and unified into one goal, that is, to have common preventive medicine concepts, knowledge and skills to achieve the perfect state of promoting the physical, mental and social adaptation of the professional population. The tasks of occupational medicine are: to prevent workers from various harmful diseases caused by their working environment; to protect workers from various hazards caused by unhealthy factors during employment; to place the occupational population in a place Be able to adapt to the physical and psychological characteristics of the professional environment; even if work can adapt to people, everyone must be able to adapt to their work. Among the objects of national health services, children are the reserve for the employed population. All persons aged 16 to 60 who participate in various occupations such as industry and agriculture, service industry, cultural education, scientific research, and administrative managers are included. Working time accounts for 2/3 of life. Therefore, their health is directly related to the prosperity of the country and the prosperity of the nation. The health and quality of life at 60 or later is more closely related to their early years. Occupational medicine is part of every specialty in medicine. Occupational diseases caused by biological factors are based on microbiology and parasitology. Diseases caused by physical and chemical factors should be based on toxicology. In clinical disciplines, the occupational disease department currently focuses on pneumoconiosis and occupational poisoning. Others such as industrial trauma, dermatitis, noise deafness, and other work-related diseases should still be listed in internal, external, skin, otolaryngology, and other departments Working range. Therefore, occupational medicine should be the focus of all medical disciplines.

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