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Occupational Medicine 1993;43:47-50
© 1993 Society of Occupational Medicine

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The health care industry

D. Heap

Consultant Occupational Physician, Bath District Health Authority

This series of articles is concerned with technological change in industry over the last 20 years, its effect on the health of the worker, and the measures taken by the employer to control any risk arising therefrom. Technological change cannot be viewed in isolation. Although advances in technology and the introduction of new processes are the outward and most visible sign of change in work practices, in most cases it is managerial restructuring, political pressures, and changes in legislation which bring about far greater change and which in the long term may have a greater effect on the health of the worker. No industry illustrates this better than the National Health Service and more recently the rapidly expanding private health care sector.

Correspondence and reprint requests to: Dr D. Heap, Consultant Occupational Physician, Bath District Health Authority, Bath


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