Diseases caused by factors involved in one's employment.

Insurance coverage providing compensation and medical benefits to individuals because of work-connected injuries or disease.

A permanent ashen-gray discoloration of the skin, conjunctiva, and internal organs resulting from long-continued use of silver salts. (Dorland, 27th ed)

Medical specialty concerned with the promotion and maintenance of the physical and mental health of employees in occupational settings.

An office in the Department of Labor responsible for developing and establishing occupational safety and health standards.

Physicians employed in a company or corporate setting that is generally not in the health care industry.

Text editing and storage functions using computer software.

Asthma attacks caused, triggered, or exacerbated by OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE.

Health services for employees, usually provided by the employer at the place of work.

A course or method of action selected to guide and determine present and future decisions.

The promotion and maintenance of physical and mental health in the work environment.

The exposure to potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological agents that occurs as a result of one's occupation.

A legal requirement that designated types of information acquired by professionals or institutions in the course of their work be reported to appropriate authorities.

An institute of the CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION which is responsible for assuring safe and healthful working conditions and for developing standards of safety and health. Research activities are carried out pertinent to these goals.

Diseases in persons engaged in cultivating and tilling soil, growing plants, harvesting crops, raising livestock, or otherwise engaged in husbandry and farming. The diseases are not restricted to farmers in the sense of those who perform conventional farm chores: the heading applies also to those engaged in the individual activities named above, as in those only gathering harvest or in those only dusting crops.

A diffuse parenchymal lung disease caused by inhalation of dust and by tissue reaction to their presence. These inorganic, organic, particulate, or vaporized matters usually are inhaled by workers in their occupational environment, leading to the various forms (ASBESTOSIS; BYSSINOSIS; and others). Similar air pollution can also have deleterious effects on the general population.

Unforeseen occurrences, especially injuries in the course of work-related activities.

A form of pneumoconiosis resulting from inhalation of dust containing crystalline form of SILICON DIOXIDE, usually in the form of quartz. Amorphous silica is relatively nontoxic.

Payment, or other means of making amends, for a wrong or injury.

Any enterprise centered on the processing, assembly, production, or marketing of a line of products, services, commodities, or merchandise, in a particular field often named after its principal product. Examples include the automobile, fishing, music, publishing, insurance, and textile industries.

A recurrent contact dermatitis caused by substances found in the work place.

The capital is Seoul. The country, established September 9, 1948, is located on the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. Its northern border is shared with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The collective designation of three organizations with common membership: the European Economic Community (Common Market), the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom). It was known as the European Community until 1994. It is primarily an economic union with the principal objectives of free movement of goods, capital, and labor. Professional services, social, medical and paramedical, are subsumed under labor. The constituent countries are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. (The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1997, p842)

A contact dermatitis due to allergic sensitization to various substances. These substances subsequently produce inflammatory reactions in the skin of those who have acquired hypersensitivity to them as a result of prior exposure.

Earth or other matter in fine, dry particles. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

Ongoing scrutiny of a population (general population, study population, target population, etc.), generally using methods distinguished by their practicability, uniformity, and frequently their rapidity, rather than by complete accuracy.

Crafts, trades, professions, or other means of earning a living.

Air pollutants found in the work area. They are usually produced by the specific nature of the occupation.

The state of being engaged in an activity or service for wages or salary.

The number of new cases of a given disease during a given period in a specified population. It also is used for the rate at which new events occur in a defined population. It is differentiated from PREVALENCE, which refers to all cases, new or old, in the population at a given time.

The systems and processes involved in the establishment, support, management, and operation of registers, e.g., disease registers.

An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.

Studies designed to assess the efficacy of programs. They may include the evaluation of cost-effectiveness, the extent to which objectives are met, or impact.

Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.

Agents of the law charged with the responsibility of maintaining and enforcing law and order among the citizenry.

Small-arms weapons, including handguns, pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, etc.

Organized efforts to insure obedience to the laws of a community.

Disorders claimed as a result of military service.