Occupational Hazards in Health Sector

Occupational medicine is a specialized branch with risk of particular vocations. Medical field is peculiar among the various health occupations; it makes both artistic and scientific demands on the practitioner. The Medical practitioner in course of his practice is likely to turn prey to infections. Technical advances make new dangers like radiation risks, electric shocks, hearing impairment and eye problems due to lasers. Knowledge of occupational hazards will help the practicing medical practitioner by helping him to prevent these risks. This book includes all these topics in medical as well as non-medical field. It will help the reader to understand the occupational hazards in an easy and a common way; so that the target population which comes in contact with the occupational related accidents can take precaution and become free from diseases. Workers, engineers, housewives, office employees and doctors, all have a possibility of making mistakes which could convert into occupational hazards. As this book has very good information about hazards, their related diseases, precaution and treatment; the reader may benefit from this book.

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Surina Sinha MDS (Orthodontics and dentofacial orthopaedics) received hands-on training sessions in the clinical departments of Periodontology, Prosthodontics, Orthodontics, Endodontics, and Advance Education in General Dentistry at Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, U.S.A. She is the author of various articles.