... Introduction Worldwide, workplace cancer prevention has a much lower profile than workplace injury prevention, despite a real and present need to elevate the profile of workplace cancer prevention around the globe. Numerous organizations around the globe attest to the high number of annual...

... are the "big 3" diseases: cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. These three diseases inevitably shorten an average person's life span or seriously degrade the quality of life. America is aging at an unprecedented rate, while physical fitness is declining at all ages. As of the year 2010, over 25...

... Worldwide, there are 13 million new cases of cancer and 7.6 million deaths every year. Nearly two thirds of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. A large proportion of all cancers are due to exposure to carcinogens in the environment or workplace. Around 8,000 deaths...

.... It is important to understand that the overall health of workers has several determinants, including risk factors at the workplace leading to cancers, accidents, musculoskeletal diseases MSDs), respiratory diseases, hearing loss, circulatory diseases, stress-related disorders, obesity, communicable diseases...

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..., siblings, aunts/uncles, and children). It s a question that we all answer on the paperwork at our Doctor s office Has anyone in your immediate family had any of the following diseases? Heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, cancers (a wide variety), etc. The list seems to go on one after another...

... exhaust be regarded as a potential carcinogen and controlled to the lowest feasible exposure level. In its bulletin NIOSH concluded that, although the excess risk of cancer in diesel-exhaust exposed workers has not been quantitatively estimated, it is logical to assume that reductions in exposure...

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