Category: Basic Occupational Health Services

Publications and education on the topic ‘Basic occupational health services’ or BOHS. BOHS refers to basic health care for workers’ health delivered by professionals and volunteers working in primary or community healthcare. OSH professionals and specialists of a variety of other disciplines are needed for education and training, for giving support, and for referrals.

Basic Occupational Health Services in Iran, for workers in agriculture (article 2019)

Agriculture as one of the most hazardous sectors of industry causes many occupational accidents and diseases. Zoonotic agents, dust, climate, noise, vibration and chemicals are widespread hazards and…

Family physicians’ attitudes and behaviors on occupational diseases (article 2019)

The official figures in Turkiye in the statistics on occupational diseases are very low: more than 100 times lower than could be expected. Frequent referrals by family physicians…

Mini occupational health services for unorganized labor markets in India (article 2018)

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…

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Workers Health, WONCA Special Interest Group (WONCA website, Annual report, 2018)

Workers Health is the topic of a Special Interest Group (SIG) of WONCA since 2017. A short report was published at the WONCA website about the first year…

In e-library: Occupational Health, Safety in Agriculture video, from India (BOHS) (2018)

Occupational Health, Safety in Agriculture is part of a series of 24 modules on Basic Occupational Health Services (BOHS) for informal work. This distance learning module is developed…

Basic Occupational Health Services, examples from various countries (lecture Antalya, Türkiye, 2017)

Frank van Dijk (co-author Peter Buijs) has held a lecture in Antalya, Türkiye on how to cover the 85 % of all workers in the world without professional…

Basic Occupational Health Services in Bangladesh, the MSF Dhaka model (article 2017)

Muralidhar and colleagues of the Médecins Sans Frontiérs (MSF) published a remarkable case report in the BMJ on the establishment of basic occupational health services (BOHS) in community…

Review article in the Asia Pacific Family Medicine journal (2016) about book on Basic Occupational Health care published in India (2017)

Book review in APFM journal Jan. 2017. F van Dijk, P Buijs. Basic Occupational Health Services for informal workers in India, for primary health care….

Academic capacity building in OSH in Indonesia (2017)

In co-operation with the Eur-Asian Foundation in Occupational Health and the Yellow Factory, LDOH collaborates with the Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta and with the UNISBA university in Bandung…

Summary of ICOH session on “Primary health care and workers’ health” in ICOH Congress 2015, in Seoul, Korea (article, 2016)

Van Dijk F, Buijs PC. Primary care and workers’ health. Summary report of a Special Session at the ICOH International Congress in Seoul, Korea, June 2015. Published in…

Book on Basic Occupational Health Services (BOHS) for Informal Industry in India. Education for Primary Health Care (2016)

Informal workers in India urgently need basic occupational health care. Therefore education in basic occupational health for primary and community health care professionals is crucial. Of the Indian…