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Eighty years of occupational medicine in Australia
Author(s) -
Ferguson David A
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1994.tb127315.x
Subject(s) - battle , opposition (politics) , occupational medicine , politics , medicine , demography , political science , family medicine , history , sociology , environmental health , occupational exposure , law , ancient history
Australia has been backward in providing safe conditions for workers. Occupational physicians have had to battle indifference, if not active opposition. Political expedience, not science, has tended to determine outcomes.