Development and Evaluation of a Training Program on Occupational Health Research and Surveillance in Turkey.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to increase knowledge and skills regarding occupational health surveillance and research in professionals.

Methods: Following the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation model, several training modules have been designed and implemented in the course of 2016. Evaluation forms were distributed to 42 participants before the start and after each training module to measure changes in knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy.

Presence and use of automated external defibrillators in occupational setting, Belgium.

Objectives: Few studies focus on out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the occupational setting. Therefore, this study describes the presence and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) at Belgian workplaces during the period 2012-2014.

Material And Methods: A self-constructed questionnaire was developed and sent to internal prevention counselors.

Workplace visits versus case studies in undergraduate occupational medicine teaching.

Objective: To examine the effectiveness and acceptability of two active approaches in teaching occupational medicine to undergraduate medical students.

Methods: Two training formats were compared: in 2007, fourth year students were sent on a workplace visit, and the next-year group discussed real life case studies. Students' perceptions were obtained by assessment questionnaire.

Occupational health care for the 21st century: from health at work to workers' health.

A survey of relevant national and international legislation and recommendations on occupational health (OH) organization revealed two fundamental approaches to OH: 1) the historically older labor approach, essentially seeing OH care as an obligation of the employer derived from the labor contract, and 2) an emerging health approach, including all workers and all aspects of health, A draft decree on OH in Flanders seeks to integrate the two approaches. It extends the scope of OH to all workers (not only employees), introduces holistic health surveillance, rejects the incapacity concept, provides for strong integration of health and workplace surveillance, and stresses ethics. Workers' satisfaction is seen as the first criterion in quality control.