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The partnership between Advance Medical Centre & Isibane Occupational Health, offers specialised occupational health services to employers ranging from multi-national corporates to smaller enterprises across the spectrum of industry sectors; from construction and mining to aviation, manufacturing and retail.
About half of the world’s population is economically active. The health of workers is an essential prerequisite for societal productivity, and therefore services to promote and protect workers’ health contribute to overall economic and human development.
It is imperative to integrate the provision of occupational health services and primary care. Legislative policy support, capacity building, worker participation and adequate resources are key factors for the success of such horizontal integration.
Public Health Care development can improve workers’ health by providing basic occupational health services, referral services and specialized occupational health services to more people than by traditional ways. Failure to consider the health needs of workers may have long term unfavourable consequences for public health.
WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health recognized that employment and working conditions are social determinants of health, that they provide well-being and economic stability, and that employment and work can favour sustainable human development. Isibane urges the formulation of policies and interventions to improve employment and working conditions; address the health conditions and well-being of workers; promote decent, healthy and productive work; and improve comprehensive care for workers.
Exposure to workplace hazards is the cause of the silent global epidemic of occupational diseases (according to WHO, 140 million new cases every year), injuries and occupational deaths resulting in substantial cost for the national economy and perpetuating poverty.
Thus, a more integrated approach to occupational health and primary health care will yield a bigger impact on the health of people, than each can achieve on their own, to secure work-focused health care. Improving the training of primary care providers in the area of occupational health and employment-related health aspects is an essential first step in integrating occupational health and primary care.
World Health Organization. Closing the gap in a generation. Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (Internet). Geneva: WHO; 2009 (cited 2015 Jan 20).
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