Title:
Available in English: Occupational Health: A Manual for Primary Health Care Workers
Code:
GUI/02/15
Supervisor:
World Health Organization
Page Numbers:
172
Summary:
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Trainer’s Guide
Module 1: Work Environment
1. Objectives
2. Introduction and Basic Concepts
3. Recognition of Health Hazards
4. Evaluation of Health Hazards
5. Controlling Hazards
6. Tasks for Trainees
Module 2: Occupational and other Work-Related Diseases
1. Objectives
2. Introduction and Basic Concepts
3. Occupational Diseases
4. Work-Related Diseases
5. Tasks for Trainees
Module 3: Early Detection of Occupational Diseases
1. Objectives
2. Introduction and Basic Concepts
3. Early Detection of Occupational Diseases
4. Early Detection of Occupational Diseases Caused by Biological Agents
5. Early Detection of Occupational Diseases Caused by Chemicals
6. Tasks for Trainees
Module 4: Occupational ergonomics
1. Objectives
2. Introduction and Basic Concepts
3. Ergonomics: a Multidisciplinary Science
4. Tasks for Trainees
Module 5: Stress and Adverse Psychological Factors at Work
1. Objectives
2. Introduction and Basic Concepts
3. Prevention and Control of Stress
4. Principles of Job Design
Module 6: Occupational Safety and Accident Prevention
1. Objectives
2. Introduction and Basic Accidents
3. Recording and Investigating Accidents
4. Accident Rates
5. Prevention and Control of Occupational Accidents
6. Tasks for Trainees
Module 7: First-aid and its Practice
1.Objectives
2. Introduction of First Aid
3. Injuries
4. Fractures
5. Thermal Injuries
6. Poisoning
7. Hemorrhage
8. Shock
9. Impaired Breathing
10.Tasks for Trainees
Module 8: Health Education in Occupational Health
1. Objectives
2. Occupational Diseases
3. Occupational Accidents
4. Work Environment and Control Measures in the Workplace
5. Prevention of Occupational Diseases and Accidents
6. Legislation
7. Effects of Lifestyle and Behavior on Health
8. Health Education in the Workplace
9. Health Education Methods and Aids
10. Communication Skills in Health Education
11.Tasks for Trainees
Module 9: Epidemiology and Biostatistics in Occupational Health
1. Objectives
2. Definitions
3. Biostatistical Data
4. Types of Epidemiological Study
5. Common Measures of Diseases Frequency
6. Tasks for Trainees
Module 10: Record Keeping
1. Objectives
2. Purpose and Types of Record
3. Record Keeping
4. Tasks for Trainees
Module 11: Occupational Health in Special Areas
1. Mining
2. Small-Scale Industry
3. Agricultural and Rural Areas
Module 12: Occupational Health for Women and Children
1. Working Women
2. Child Labour
Further Reading
Year:
2002
Sub-Sector:
Citizenship