Authors: Coman MA, Marcu A, Chereches RM, Leppälä J, Van Den Broucke S. Educational Interventions to Improve Safety and Health Literacy Among Agricultural Workers: A Systematic Review. Int. J...
Basic Occupational Health Services
This topic focuses on the most essential activities for workers' health performed by primary and community health care. It includes so called Basic Occupational Health Services, the essential care on occupational safety and health for the 85 % of all workers in the world who have no access to care provided by so called specialized Occupational Health Services. Often the term Basic Occupational Health Services is used for systematic activities performed by primary of community health care professionals or centers. Such systematic activities are in development in countries as Thailand, Iran, Indonesia, South Africa, India and Brazil. In other countries Public Health organizations are performing a variety of activities in this field such as for migrant workers in USA. In many European countries primary health care professionals such an family physicians, and not to forget many clinicians are increasingly active for workers' health such as in UK, Italy and the Netherlands. New BOHS forms are tested successfully such as small specialized occupational health clinics with reach out activities in high risk precarious working areas in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In India and Malaysia a series of workshops were given for health care professionals to develop knowledge and basic skills in workplace hazard identification, assessment and control.
The LDOH foundation supports the development of various basic occupational health services and more broadly the efforts of primary and community health care, and clinicians, by co-organizing symposiums and sessions on this topic such as in international ICOH and WONCA congresses and meetings. We are also building a free accessible database with (descriptions of) publications on this topic, in close collaboration with the Indian Association of Occupational Health.
Publications on Basic Occupational Health Services
Mini occupational health services for unorganized labor markets in India
Kulkarni GK. Mini occupational health services for un-organized labor markets in India. Indian J Occup Environ Med 2018;22:1 (Editorial). PMID: 29743776, see: (Free PMC Article) From the total...
Online Information and Basic Occupational Health Care, promising innovations
The Center for International Health of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, hosted its first Occupational Safety and Health symposium in Munich, 16 March 2019. In this high-level...
Basic Occupational Health Services in Bangladesh, the MSF Dhaka model
To diagnose and treat work-related diseases among tannery, metal, plastics and garment workers and families, part of a population of 600 000 working people in heavily polluted areas of Dhaka...
Education in Basic Occupational Health Services
Mumbai, India. Lecture on Basic Occupational Health Services, January 2020
ICOH Mumbai. Orientation to OH Workshop IAOH. Introduction BOHS. F van Dijk. January 2020 In a workshop Orientation on Occupational Health for not-medical experts in occupational safety and health...
Systematic review on education of agricultural workers improving safety and health literacy
Authors: Coman MA, Marcu A, Chereches RM, Leppälä J, Van Den Broucke S. Educational Interventions to Improve Safety and Health Literacy Among Agricultural Workers: A Systematic Review. Int. J...
Online Information and Basic Occupational Health Care, promising innovations
The Center for International Health of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, hosted its first Occupational Safety and Health symposium in Munich, 16 March 2019. In this high-level...
Work and Health in Agriculture for Primary Health Care
A working group of the Foundation LDOH is producing course materials under the title Work and Health in Agriculture, intended for a short course for practitioners in primary health care. The present...