| Document ID (ISN) | 56153 |
| CIS number |
91-779 |
| Year |
1991 |
| Convention or series no. |
|
| Title |
Recent developments in occupational medicine |
| Bibliographic information |
Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety, Department of Environmental Health, SC-34, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, 1991. 1 vol. Illus. Bibl.ref. |
| Abstract |
Course material (most of it reproducing articles from scientific periodicals) for a 1-day seminar for occupational physicians, held in Seattle (WA, USA) on 1 Mar. 1991. Subjects covered (among others): clinical ecology; a prospective clinical and virologic study of chronic fatigue; nystatin therapy for the candidiasis hypersensitivity syndrome; study of fibromyalgia; recent trends in occupational diseases (classified by type of disorder); some new problems (dioxin, VDTs, sick-building syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivities); respiratory diseases in agriculture; occupational and environmental factors associated with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease; detection of occupational liver disease; prevention and surveillance of occupational respiratory diseases. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
training course; USA; training material; occupational medicine; occupational diseases |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
literature survey; tetrachlorodibenzodioxin; Parkinson's disease; respiratory diseases; candidiasis; agriculture; fatigue; visual display terminals; training manuals; sick building syndrome; hepatic diseases |
| Document type |
C - Training manuals, audiovisual material |
| Country / State or Province | USA |
| Subject(s) |
Medicine, hygiene and first aid
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Multiple chemical sensitivities
Bacterial and parasitic diseases
Sick building syndrome
OSH training
Mycoses
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