Bibliometric Study of Technology and Occupational Health in Healthcare Sector: A Worldwide Trend to the Future

Abstract

Since the eighties, technological tools have modified how people interact in their environment. At the same time, occupational safety and health measures have been widely applied. The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work considers that information and communication technologies are the main methods to achieve the goals proposed to improve working life and the dissemination of good practices. The principal objective was to determine the trends of publications focused on these technologies and occupational safety in the healthcare sector during the last 30 years. A bibliometric study was carried out. The 1021 documents showed an increased trend per country, especially for the United States (p < 0.001) and year (p < 0.001). The citations per year showed significant differences between citations of articles published before 2007 (p < 0.001). The year was also linked to the increase or decrease of articles (72.2%) and reviews (14.9%) (p < 0.001). The analysis of journal co-citations also showed that the main journals (such as Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology) were linked to other important journals and had a major part in the clusters formed. All these findings were discussed in the manuscript and conclusions were drawn.

The Top 100 Most Cited Scientific Papers in the Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Category of Web of Science: A Bibliometric and Visualized Analysis

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Occupational Health and Safety Scope Significance in Achieving Sustainability

“…On the basis of the literature review, it can be argued that there are benefits for mainstreaming OSH in education in the fight against work-related accidents. Ultimately, efforts towards mainstreaming OSH in education may play a significant role in shaping the safety attitudes of the students, and leveraging them in times of tough challenges of the labour market [99,135]. However, the EU-OSHA, which supports that mainstreaming OSH in education should be a priority throughout the universities' curriculum, reports that such integration is the most challenging.…”

Scientometric evaluation of trends and global characteristics of published research on occupational public health

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