Occupational medicine in Chile

Occupational health crossing borders part 2: Comparison of 18 occupational health systems across the globe

“…The information summarized herein was provided by the presenters and participants during the course. Wherever possible, the information was supplemented by information from recent literature and reviewed by an expert [Rasmussen et al, 1991;Szantho Pongracz and Morales Freire, 1994;Harrington and Aw, 1996;Isah et al, 1996;Bedrikow et al, 1997;Contreras and Dummer, 1997;Joyce, 1997;He, 1998;Lehnert and Wrbitzky, 1998;Libert and Yamada, 1998;Joshi, 1999;Laskar et al, 1999;Macdonald et al, 2000;Vallebuona Stagno, 2001;Ofili et al, 2003;Ejilemele and Ojule, 2004;Danishevski et al, 2006;De Valk et al, 2006;Kamuzora, 2006;Kauppinen et al, 2006;Womack, 2008;Center for Disease Control, 2009;Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, 2009;Occupational Safety Health Agency, 2009;United States Department of Labor, 2009].…”

“…Little has been published about the different OHS standards in countries at different levels of industrialization. Most previous publications, dating from the late 1990s, focused on industrialized countries and countries in transition [Langard and Wannag, 1995;Harrington and Aw, 1996;Bedrikow et al, 1997;Cikrt et al, 1997;Contreras and Dummer, 1997;de la Hoz et al, 1997;Ribak et al, 1997;Wolf et al, 1997;He, 1998;Koh and Jeyaratnam, 1998;Lehnert and Wrbitzky, 1998;Libert and Yamada, 1998;Overgaard-Hansen, 1998;Phoon, 1998;Gestal-Otero et al, 1999;Guo et al, 1999;Joshi, 1999;Saric, 1999;Ahlborg, 2000;Werner, 2000;Hämäläinen et al, 2001]. Hämäläinen et al [2006] recently estimated the incidence of occupational accidents across the world.…”