Overall population: France has 3 times more inhabitants than Romania (62 millions compared to 21 millions)
Working population: France has 4 times more workers than Romania (16 millions compared to about 4 millions) – possible explanation: several millions of young/middle age Romanians went to work abroad in the last 15 years
Occupational physicians: in France there are […]
Recently, as I was reading Joseph LaDou’s book titled “Current occupational and environmental medicine”, I was struck by the similarities between the situation in the US described and the situation of occupational medicine practice in Romania.
In absence of laws to the contrary, industry continues to hire the most compliant and the most cost-effective health care […]
During the years following the graduation of the medical school, I noticed that there is something very particular with the kind of medicine we’re practicing. Hypertension cannot be cured, but only controlled under medication; it’s the same with diabetes, asthma, and most other diseases, this is the limit of medical knowledge. In general, drugs used […]
Romania, a former Communist country (1948-1989), joined the European Union on January 1, 2007.
For this purpose, it completed a process of harmonizing the entire legislation on occupational health and safety with that of the European Union, but the application of this legislation in practice lags well behind. It is said that the current situation is […]
Estimate of occupational cancer rate
Currently, the best estimate of the proportion of cancer deaths due to occupational exposures over the last few decades is 4%, with an associated uncertainty range of 2% to 8%, based on an estimate by Doll and Peto in 1981 in a report to the US Congress, which is nowadays also […]
It’s blogging time! I have some experience in the past with webmastering, published a few websites, but never tried blogging. This website will testimony some of my web ramblings, gathering here some of the best online resources I stumble upon, spiced up with short articles on the theory and the practice of occupational medicine […]