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Volume 8, Issue 5
1 December 1997
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Environmental Management and Health
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Review Article| December 01 1997

Current problems in occupational and environmental health: overview Available to Purchase

Wai‐On Phoon
Wai‐On Phoon
Professor of Occupational Health, University of Sydney, Pymble, NSW, Australia
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7085
Print ISSN: 0956-6163
© MCB UP Limited
1997
Environmental Management and Health (1997) 8 (5): 162–166.
https://doi.org/10.1108/09566169710179157

Reports that among the major current problems in Asia‐Pacific countries are those due to heat, heavy metals, organic solvents, pesticides, carcinogens, dusts, reproductive hazards, biological hazards, and psychosocial problems, including work stress. The relative importance differs from country to country.

Keywords:
Dust, Hazards, Heavy metals, Stress, Work
© MCB UP Limited
1997
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