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Occupational therapy ( OT) is a healthcare profession that involves the use of assessment and intervention to develop, recover, or maintain the meaningful activities, or occupations, of individuals, groups, or communities. The field of OT consists of health care practitioners trained and educated to improve mental and physical performance.
Occupational health nursing is a specialty nursing practice that provides for and delivers health and safety programs and services to workers, worker populations, and community groups. The practice focuses on promotion, maintenance and restoration of health, prevention of illness and injury, and protection from work‐related and environmental ...
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Germany) Health and Safety Authority (Ireland) National Institute of Occupational Health (Norway) Swedish Work Environment Authority. Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (France)
The Basic Occupational Health Services are an application of the primary health care principles in the sector of occupational health.Primary health care definition can be found in the World Health Organization Alma Ata declaration from the year 1978 as the “essential health care based on practical scientifically sound and socially accepted methods, (…) it is the first level of contact of ...
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Communications Bureau is the first point-of-contact for citizens living in unincorporated areas of the county that are seeking emergency or law enforcement services. This is one of the busiest Public Safety Answering Points (9-1-1) in the Tampa Bay area. In a typical year, the Bureau staff answers ...
Occupational therapists foster promotion of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and a sense of achievement through doing, being, and belonging in a client's choice of activities, roles, routines, contexts, and environments. [5] Occupational therapists can also provide prevention and education regarding physical, mental, and social-emotional aspects of ...
Workplace health surveillance or occupational health surveillance (U.S.) is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of exposure and health data on groups of workers. [1] [2] The Joint ILO / WHO Committee on Occupational Health at its 12th Session in 1995 defined an occupational health surveillance system as "a system ...
The convention was held on the 71st International Labour Convention session in Geneva on 25 June 1985. The preamble notes the relevance of the Protection of Workers' Health Recommendation, 1953, the Occupational Health Services Recommendation, 1959, the Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971, and the Occupational Safety and Health Convention ...