Role of the Primary Care Physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

by Institute Of Prevention

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1988 edition. Excerpt: ...risks and about disease prevention in general. Efforts that stimulate an increasingly informed public to raise such questions in their contacts with physicians are important. Worker and community right-to-know laws will increase the likelihood that physicians will be asked about specific chemical and physical hazards. Federal agencies responsible for occupational and environmental health should give higher priority to proactively developing accurate information about issues for dissemination to the media, with the goal of informing physicians indirectly through their patients. Information should be disseminated both in the form of tip sheets that outline issues and contact points for the press and through more in-depth features that are suitable for use by newspapers. Patients can also influence the economic problems associated with poor reimbursement for preventive services. They may be important advocates for broadening coverage through union-management negotiations during collective bargaining. Both union and nonunion workers can lobby their state legislatures for laws that mandate such coverage. Jrinters themselves tell me that after they have applied themselves to their task the whole day long and have left the shop they fancy even at night that those letters which are printed on their imagination keep moving to and fro before their eyes for many hours, until their images are blotted out by the forms of other objects. Chapter 4 Recommended Interventions in the Education of Future Physicians The teaching of environmental and occupational medicine to future primary care physicians needs to be significantly changed at both the undergraduate and graduate levels of medical education (Rest et al., 1983b; Cullen, 1987; Demers et al., 1987; Levy, ..

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First published January 1, 1988