Health Care

Occupational Health

The promotion and maintenance of physical and mental health in the work environment.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

The promotion and maintenance of physical and mental health in the work environment.

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Synonyms

9 entry terms
  • Health, Occupational
  • Employee Health
  • Health, Industrial
  • Hygiene, Industrial
  • Industrial Health
  • Industrial Hygiene
  • Occupational Safety
  • Safety, Occupational
  • Health, Employee

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, standards, statistics & numerical data.

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Indexing Annotation

"promotion and maintenance of physical and mental health in the work environment": do not confuse with OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE (the specialty) or OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; note entry term OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY which is GEN only: do not use as coord for safety in an industrial milieu ( = SAFETY and specific indust or occup heading); DF: OCCUP HEALTH

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History Note

91

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Previous Indexing

  • Occupational Health Nursing (1966-1990)
  • Occupational Health Services (1968-1990)
  • Occupational Medicine (1966-1990)

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Tree Number

  1. N01.400w.525

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Occupational Health. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016272. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016272
  2. Occupational Health. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7478098