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Annals of Occupational Hygiene Advance Access originally published online on September 23, 2006
Annals of Occupational Hygiene 2006 50(7):645-649; doi:10.1093/annhyg/mel065
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Occupational Hygiene Education and Status: Global Trends and A Global Future

MICHEL P. GUILLEMIN

Institute for Occupational Health Sciences, Lausanne Switzerland, 19, Rue du Bugnon, CH 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland

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INTRODUCTION

Alice Hamilton is considered as the mother of ‘occupational hygiene’ (at least in the USA) since she introduced at Harvard University the bases of this science, which detects, evaluates and controls hazards arising in and from the workplace (Rose, 2003). After that time (the forties) the discipline, called Industrial Hygiene, evolved and developed very well up to the late nineties. What are the prospects as we settle into the 21st Century?

Relevant milestones of the international development of the discipline are the founding in 1987 of the International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA) (http://www.ioha.net) and the support of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and of the World Health Organization (WHO) through publications promoting Occupational Hygiene (OH) (ILO, 1981; WHO, 1988). In 1992, the WHO published a booklet entitled ‘Occupational Hygiene in Europe—The Development of the Profession’ (WHO, 1992), which described the specificity . . . [Full Text of this Article]

STATUS AND VISIBILITY OF OH

TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES

PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES

CONCLUSIONS


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