Occupational Cardiology: A Paradigm Shift for Clinical
Practice
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(please note that this section is under construction as of September,
2002)
- INTRODUCTION
- A PROPOSAL FOR
AN AGENDA FOR OCCUPATIONAL CARDIOLOGY: HOW DO WE MOVE FROM EPIDEMIOLOGICAL
EVIDENCE TO PREVENTION-ORIENTED CLINCAL PRACTICE?
- How to take an Occupational History relevant to the Cardiovascular
System with Clinical Examples of How This Can Facilitate an Integrated
Occupational Cardiologic Approach to Patients (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
- THE
CONCEPT OF OCCUPATIONAL SENTINEL HEALTH EVENTS AS IT RELATES
TO THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
- An In-Depth Review of the Epidemiological Evidence With Respect
to Workplace Factors and Cardiovascular Disease, With Particular
Attention to the Methodological Quality-Validity of the Data.
(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
- ECONEUROCARDIOLOGY:
A REVIEW OF THE BIOLOGICAL PLAUSIBILITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT-BRAIN-HEART
CONNECTION
- WORKSITE ASSESSMENT
OF CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION: AMBULATORY MONITORING AND OTHER TECHNIQUES
(POINT ESTIMATES)
- Laboratory Evaluation of Cardiovascular Function as Relevant
to the Workplace (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
- PRELIMINARY
ALGORITHMS / APPROACH TO THE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF WORK-RELATED
HYPERTENSION AND RELEVANT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES AND PRE-PATHOLOGIC
CONDITIONS
- AN
OCCUPATIONAL CARDIOLOGIC APPROACH TO JOBS IN WHICH PUBLIC SAFETY
COULD BE COMPROMISED BY SUDDEN ONSET OF CARDIOVASCULAR INCAPACITATION
OR LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, AND WHICH ALSO ENTAIL A HEAVY EXPOSURE
TO CARDIONOXIOUS WORKPLACE FACTORS
- Clinical Examples of an Integrated Occupational Cardiologic
Approach to Patients (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
- Promoting Cooperation with Other Key Participants such as
Occupational Health Psychologists and other Occupational Health
Specialists and Epidemiologists, as well as Labor and Management
(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
a) The Occupational Health
Psychologist and Cardiologist in developing strategies in work-related
issues, e.g. Return to Work of patients after cardiac events
b) Need to expand the authority of the clinician, whose interest
is first and foremost the well-being of his or her patients,
can represent a stabilizing force, promoting cooperation among
the various participants in the work process (e.g. labor, management,
occupational hygienists, engineers, economists). (Fisher 2000,
p. 250)
c) Occupational Cardiology in a primary care setting: A public
health approach
- A
BROADER PUBLIC HEALTH CONTEXT
- INTERSECTORIAL
WORK: HOW TO DEFINE AND CREATE A "HEALTHY HEART" WORK
ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL WORKING PEOPLE
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