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It’s 10 years since the publication of the Black Review but we remain a long way from achieving inclusive occupational health support for all working-age people in the UK. Have we lost our way?

Occupational health can play a ‘valuable and sustainable’ role in reducing the world’s disease burden and improving wellbeing, and can help alleviate poverty and reduce inequality, says the World Health Organization (WHO) (p.12)1. Over 1.2 million deaths and 2.7% of the total disease burden are attributable to work, disproportionately affecting workers in low- and middle-income countries; but this does not mean that OH cannot deliver major public health…

Dr John Ballard, editor Occupational Health [at Work]

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Occupational Health at Work October/November 2018 (vol. 15/3) pp03

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