| Document ID (ISN) | 60048 |
| CIS number |
93-867 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0962-7480 - Occupational Medicine |
| Year |
1993 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Heap D. |
| Title |
The health care industry |
| Bibliographic information |
Feb. 1993, Vol.43, No.1, p.47-50. 10 ref. |
| Abstract |
This article is concerned with technological change in industry over the last 20 years, its effect on the health of the worker, and the measures taken by the employer to control any risk arising therefrom. Technological change cannot be viewed in isolation. Although advances in technology and the introduction of new processes are the outward and most visible sign of change in work practices, in most cases it is managerial restructuring, political pressures, and changes in legislation which bring about far greater change and which in the long term may have a greater effect on the health of the worker. No industry illustrates this better that the National Health Service and more recently the rapidly expanding private health care sector. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
responsibilities of employers; state of health; workplaces; technical development; hazard identification; industries; health services |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
United Kingdom; survey; immunodeficiency syndrome; infectious hepatitis |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | United Kingdom |
| Subject(s) |
Commerce, services, offices
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Industries and occupations
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Health care services
Bacterial and parasitic diseases
Viral diseases (other than aids)
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