Citation

Quinn MM, Punnett L, Christiani DC, Levenstein C, Wegman DH. Am. J. Ind. Med. 1987; 12(5): 499-506.

Affiliation

Occupational Health Program, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester 01605.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3687948

Abstract

Exchanges between U.S. and Chinese professionals have provided opportunities for observation of recent developments in occupational health in China. For the past decade, China has been committed to an unprecedented drive for economic modernization, including new policies on ownership, business management, employment, health care, and disability as well as increased activity in heavy, light, and service industries. Chinese occupational health professionals and labor organizations have set a goal of modernizing worker health along with the rest of society. Examples of advances in occupational health occurring since 1981 are the coordination of industrial hygiene and health research and services, an emphasis on epidemiology, interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving, the pretesting of toxic substances, regulation and standard setting, and on-site workplace hazard prevention.

Language: en