How much do workers’ health examinations add to health and safety at the workplace? Occupational preventive usefulness of routine health examinations

Objective: Despite no evidence in favour, routine workers’ health examinations, mostly pre-employment and periodic, are extensively performed worldwide with important allocation of resources. In Spain they are performed within a theoretical job-specific health surveillance system. Our objective was...

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Main Authors: Maria Cruz Rodríguez-Jareño, Emilia Molinero, Jaume de Montserrat, Antoni Vallès, Marta Aymerich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-07-01
Series:Gaceta Sanitaria
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0213911114002763