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 and Public Health Sciences
15400 W. McNichols, 2nd Floor
Detroit, MI 48235
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