Occupational & Environmental Medicine (OEM)
What are our nation’s greatest health risks? Cancer? Diabetes?
Heart disease? If asked to list America’s
greatest public health concerns few of us would be likely to include
work-related illness and injury near
the top of the list. Yet according to the National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH),
an average of 9,000 U.S. workers sustain disabling injuries on the
job each day. Another 16 workers die
each day from an injury sustained at work, while 137 more die from
work-related diseases.
Occupational Medicine is a specialty that seeks to understand the
relationship between the environment
and health. While its principal focus is on the workplace, consideration
is also given to the global
environment. The goal is not only to understand and control factors
that may interfere with health,
but also to promote healthy living and improve quality of life. Training
in occupational medicine emphasizes
the study of populations, figuring out the agents responsible for
illness (causality), and determining if
something will happen once an individual is exposed (risk assessment).
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Contact Persons
Skupski, James N., MD, MPH Assistant Professor,
Residency Director
P. (313) 340-4345
F. (313) 493-9387
jskupski@med.wayne.edu
Hikmet Jamil, MD, PhD, FFOM.I. Professor,
Associate Residency Director
P. (313) 340-4341
F. (313) 493-9387
hjamil@med.wayne.edu
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Department of Family Medicine
15400 W. McNichols, 2nd Floor
Detroit, MI 48235
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