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Occupational Health 2018 Journal of Nursing and Health Studies
ISSN: 2574-2825 Page 21
May 28-29, 2018
London, UK
4th Edition of International Conference on
Occupational Health and
Safety
Occupational medicine, occupational and environmental
medicine, industrial hygiene, occupational and sports
medicine, protection at work, whatever it is called in
different countries, this is an extraordinary important
branch of preventive medicine. In some European countries,
occupational medicine as a studying scientific discipline has
lost its recognition, starting from health centres up to medical
schools. The question to be asked is whether such an automatic
negation of a new danger is positive, not only for the reason of
the lost dignity, but also because of endangering community
and environment. We have witnessed for a prolonged period
of time the results of weakening of the occupational medicine.
The traffic accidents and miss use of firearms have increased,
as well as sudden deaths of young athletes at sports events,
the number of work injuries and professional illness. Further
question is the growing privatization and tendency of the total
privatization of primary and specific healthcare, i.e. the whole
health system except partially hospitals. The occupational
medicine specialist at the open market losses the required
neutrality and in order to keep the clients and survive,
panders to contracted firms or to the workers. Furthermore,
psychologists and psychiatrists that make a compulsory part of
the occupational medicine teams, do inadequate work capacity
assessments by overlooking specificity of the workplace. It is
necessary to return dignity and independency to occupational
medicine, so it can achieve its primary task without any type
of pressure - assessing work capacity. Trends of the modern
occupational health services, visiting of working places,
questioning and screenings have to be conducted but at the
strong stationary occupational medicine centres, preferably at
scientific educational institutions.
Biography
Hrvoje Lalic was born in Rijeka, Croatia in 1960. Medical school University
Rijeka finished in 1983 and worked as general practitioner in the Health Cen-
ter Rijeka for ten years. Specialization in Occupational Medicine has done
partially in Zagreb, Croatian capital city, in internationally famous School “An-
drija Štampar” that is under WHO patronage and partially in Bologna, Italy
at “Policlinic S´Orsola Malpighi, OM school for specialization. Scientific and
educational career he built parallel with his practical work in OM surgery.
He participated World Congresses, OM Congress in Moscow – plenary
lecture, San Marino Italy, Dubrovnik and Hvar in Croatia etc. Invited lectur-
er at Trieste, Italy – 10 hours of lectures to medical students, doctors and
professors and active participant in Erasmus Program, speaker – 10 hours
of lectures in Umeä, Sweden, 10 hours in Bologna, Italy, this year (2017) in
University of Wienna – 10 hours of lectures. First author of papers published
and cited in international journals, tracked in Pub Med Medline, CC, SCI and
Open Access.
Now is working at the Dpt of OMMedicine Rijeka like a specialist of OM and
Sports medicine and regular professor of OM at Medical School University
of Rijeka, Croatia.
Where occupational medicine goes?
Hrvoje Lalić
University of Rijeka, Croatia
Hrvoje Lalić, J Nurs Health Stud 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C2-005