Public Health& Community Medicine 

ABOUT

Prof. Dr. Mohamed El-Helaly
Professor and Head of Occupational & Environmental Medicine Division
Public Health & Community Medicine Department
Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura Univ., Egypt

Occupational and environmental medicine is not a new branch of medicine, however, it
becomes a very important specialty nowadays worldwide. Currently, the occupational
medicine physicians are highly required by the international market not only for the industrial
sector but also for healthcare facilities, service and entertainment industries, and others.
According to the International Labor organization (ILO), 2019: about 2.78 million workers
die each year from occupational diseases and workplace accidents. This lead to lost working
days and money that consume 4 to 6 % of the world’s GDP (global Gross Domestic Product)
each year. These numbers are expected to increase in the future due to ineffective control
measures and production of more chemicals and technologies that expose workers to more
dangers agents 

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