28 March 2024
How can we prevent work-related illnesses due to exposures? And are such work-related illnesses adequately recognized and acknowledged?
Every year 4,000 Dutch people die as a result of their work, a large proportion of these cases are due to hazardous substance exposure. This must change, which is why the government wants no one to die from poor working conditions by 2040. We discussed how work-related illnesses can be prevented during the public dialogure organized by De Nieuwe Utrechtse School, Van Hier Naar [...] and Exposome-NL.
The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...
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