The New Occupational Physician—Necessity for Attention to Environmental Issues

Abstract

This short article emphasizes the necessity for occupational health physicians to pay closer attention to global environmental issues including risk assessment and risk management of those issues. Industrialization casts both light and shadow. Every effort should be made to balance the light and shadow, and where possible, to provide more of the former and lessen the latter. More experts in this field must be trained and hired as faculty at schools of medicine, particularly at schools or institutes offering training in occupational health.