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Occupational and environmental health linkages

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The health hazards to which some persons are exposed in their work are not unrelated to the environmental hazards which permeate the ecosystems within which we are all integrally bound. Yet for the most part, occupational health policies are determined as if there were no such connection. This chapter will explore some of the implications of this observation.

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  1. School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Raymond P. Côté  & Peter G. Wells  & 

  2. Environment Canada, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Peter G. Wells

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Paehlke, R.C. (1991). Occupational and environmental health linkages. In: Côté, R.P., Wells, P.G. (eds) Controlling Chemical Hazards. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6849-6_7

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