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Occupational Health Issues and Strategies: A View from Primary Health Care

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Health and Work

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Continuing with the theme of political strategies to improve working conditions and health, the following chapter explores a number of policy areas from the vantage point of primary health care. It highlights the need for both local and global responses to problems of work-related ill health. At local level, primary health care offers a relatively underused source of support that could potentially enhance workers’ knowledge and control. It could also offer a much needed independent source of information and advice on occupational health issues, outside of the employer dominated services that currently exist. While local responses are important, the global nature of occupational health problems is increasingly apparent and this necessitates international collaboration between all those involved in promoting health at work.

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Pickvance, S. (1999). Occupational Health Issues and Strategies: A View from Primary Health Care. In: Daykin, N., Doyal, L. (eds) Health and Work. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27625-7_13

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