The rise and fall of occupational medicine in the United StatesJoseph LaDou
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco 94117, USA
Am J Prev Med 22:285-95. 2002
..Because so few physicians obtain board certification, it appears that the specialty of occupational medicine is returning to its former obscurity...
- Occupational medicine: the case for reform
Joseph LaDou
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94117, USA
Am J Prev Med 28:396-402. 2005
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Workers' Compensation in the United States: cost shifting and inequities in a dysfunctional systemJoseph LaDou
University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
New Solut 20:291-302. 2010
..State and federal Workers' Compensation programs are a costly and inefficient segment of health care that should be included in any consideration of health care reform...
- World Trade Organization, ILO conventions, and workers' compensation
Joseph LaDou
International Center for Occupational Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco 94143 0924, USA
Int J Occup Environ Health 11:210-1. 2005
..Acceptance of a minimum workers' compensation insurance system could be a requirement imposed on applicant nations by WTO member states...
- Printed circuit board industry
Joseph LaDou
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143 0924, USA
Int J Hyg Environ Health 209:211-9. 2006
..Billions of electronics products have been discarded in every region of the world. This paper summarizes recent regulatory and enforcement efforts...
- Occupational and environmental medicine in the United States: A proposal to abolish workers' compensation and reestablish the public health model
Joseph LaDou
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143 0924, USA
Int J Occup Environ Health 12:154-68. 2006
..Occupational health and safety professional strained in public health can and should participate in these activities, but not when they are in the employ of industry or insurers...
- "Gulf war syndrome" may be related to circadian dysrhythmia
Joseph LaDou
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143 0924, USA
Int J Occup Environ Health 13:125-7. 2007
..If circadian dysrhythmia is found to be present in veterans now returning from the Gulf, they should receive treatment to correct the problem before they develop chronic desynchronosis...
- Cancer and reproductive risks in the semiconductor industry
Joseph LaDou
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143 0924, USA
Int J Occup Environ Health 13:376-85. 2007
..Government agencies, the courts, industry, publishers, and academia, on occasion, collude to ignore or to downplay the importance of occupational diseases. Examples of how this happens in the semiconductor industry are presented...
- Export of electronics equipment waste
Joseph LaDou
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143 0924, USA
Int J Occup Environ Health 14:1-10. 2008
..Manufacturers must develop clean products with longer lifespans that are safe and easy to repair, upgrade, and recycle and will not expose workers and the environment to hazardous chemicals...
- Federal Employees' Compensation Act
Joseph LaDou
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143 0924, USA
Int J Occup Environ Health 15:180-94. 2009
..It is unlikely that Congressional review will occur any time soon, as the entrenched bureaucracy that benefits from the FECA program defines and protects its future...
The case for a global ban on asbestosJoseph LaDou
University of California San Francisco, USA
Environ Health Perspect 118:897-901. 2010
..In fact, chrysotile has accounted for > 95% of all the asbestos used globally...
- The European influence on workers' compensation reform in the United States
Joseph LaDou
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143 0924, USA
Environ Health 10:103. 2011
..The Public Health Model is strongly influenced by the European success with physician consultation with industry and labor...
- International occupational health
Joseph LaDou
International Center for Occupational Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California 94143 0924, USA
Int J Hyg Environ Health 206:303-13. 2003
..Only after the development of a successful legal and economic system in an industrializing country is it possible to incorporate a successful program of occupational health and safety...
- The asbestos cancer epidemic
Joseph LaDou
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, 350 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 609, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:285-90. 2004
..The global asbestos cancer epidemic is a story of monumental failure to protect the public health...
- Codes of ethics (conduct)
Joseph LaDou
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco 94143-0924, USA
Occup Med 17:559-85. 2002
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- American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM): a professional association in service to industry
Joseph LaDou
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143 0924, USA
Int J Occup Environ Health 13:404-26. 2007
..This paper chronicles the history of occupational medicine and industry physicians as influenced and even controlled by corporate leaders...
- Occupational health in industrializing countries
Joseph LaDou
International Center for Occupational Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
Occup Med 17:349-54, iii. 2002
..Evidence of progress is emphasized, and suggestions for better collaboration are provided...
- Occupational health nursing and the quest for professional authority
Elaine Draper
Department of Sociology, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
New Solut 21:57-88. 2011
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- Cancer risk in the semiconductor industry: a call for action
John C Bailar
Int J Occup Environ Health 8:163-8. 2002
- The International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) and its influence on international organizations
Nicholas A Ashford
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Int J Occup Environ Health 8:156-62. 2002
..Official recognition of the ICOH compromises the credibility of the WHO and the ILO. It is inappropriate for the ICOH to continue to receive WHO and ILO recognition unless the ICOH is recognized as an industry organization...
- Aspartame bioassay findings portend human cancer hazards
James Huff
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27514, USA
Int J Occup Environ Health 13:446-8. 2007
..No study of long-term adverse occupational health effects on aspartame workers have been conducted. The FDA should consider sponsoring a prospective epidemiologic study of aspartame workers...
- Re: Implementation of WHO Guidelines on Disclosure of Interest by members of WHO Expert Panels
Olav Axelson
Int J Occup Environ Health 8:271-3. 2002
- FIOH-sponsored newsletter misrepresents asbestos hazards in Zimbabwe
John C Bailar
The University of Chicago, IL, USA
Int J Occup Environ Health 12:254-8. 2006
..Instead, FIOH should provide the same level of scientific information in Africa that it does in Finland and other developed countries...
- Health and safety executive inspection of U.K. semiconductor manufacturers
Andrew Watterson
Occupational, Environmental and Health Research Group, RG Bomont Building R3T11, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland FK9 4LA
Int J Occup Environ Health 9:392-5. 2003
..The results of the studies prompted semiconductor industry inspections recently completed by the HSE that included chip manufacturers in Scotland and other U.K. areas. The results of these inspections are disappointing...
- IBM, Elsevier Science, and academic freedom
John C Bailar
Int J Occup Environ Health 13:312-7. 2007
..Although such practices are widely recognized, no fundamental change is supported by government and industry or by professional organizations...
- Texaco and its consultants
Jaime Breilh
Int J Occup Environ Health 11:217-20. 2005
- Trichloroethylene and cancers in humans
James Huff
Toxicology 197:185-7. 2004
- Warning auto mechanics about asbestos hazards
Joseph LaDou
Int J Occup Environ Health 10:108-9. 2004
