The WHO Platform OpenWHO developed a course for health workers who work under challenging or difficult conditions related to COVID-19. In this pandemic health workers are exposed to many different occupational risks to...
Category - Employment conditions
inclusive working times, total working time per week/month, seasonal work, shift work, (problems with) employment conditions ( low salary, no contract, no social security, flexible work times, informal work, restructuring organizations
Virtual Patients: Workplace Survey
This Virtual Patient lesson Workplace Survey presents a practical case in occupational medicine and is meant for medical students. It guides through and teaches the process of making a workplace survey in the specific...
Virtual Patients: Lower Back Pain
This Virtual Patients lesson concerns the situation of three workers, coming from Brazil, Chile and Germany, who all suffer from low backpain. During the lesson information is given about all the causing factors of low...
Virtual Patients: Ergnomics Case IX – Mistake
In this virtual patient lesson, the situation of a pilot of an international airline stands central. In the aviation industry, which is a high reliability organization, themes like human error, crew resource- and risk...
Virtual Patients: Electroplater
This lesson is about Mr. Kirchberger, who has complaints like a nose bleedings, a blocked nose and a hole in his nasal septum. He works for an electroplating company. The cards of this lesson guide you through the...