Breathless: a lesson in diagnosis and treatment of occupational respiratory diseases

This lesson presents a practical case in occupational medicine, and is meant for medical students and professionals in training for occupational medicine. It guides through the process of proper diagnosis of two different types of occupational lung diseases, related to meat production and glasshouse work. The lesson emphasizes the right diagnosis on basis of prescribing […]

Wind of change

This video of almost 13 minutes illustrates the incentives of the ILO Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development programmes (WIND). With the examples obtained from three countries (Viet Nam, Kyrgyzstan, Senegal), the video shows improvements in working and private living conditions after having adopted the WIND approach. WIND builds on 3 elements: (1) the support for […]