Occupational and environmental medicine is probably the foremost wide-ranging of all medical specialties. It is the therapeutic field to prevention and management of occupational and environmental injury, sickness and disability, and advancement of health and efficiency of workers, their families and community groups. Today, the complication and pervasiveness of current industrial processes afford occupational and environmental medicine physicians the opportunity to address work-site and environmental concerns and such community health and policy issues as atmospheric contamination, product safety, health promotion and benefits value management.
