Article ID: CBB001211089

Beginnings: The Occupational Health Program at the University of Alberta, 1984--1999 (2012)

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The Occupational Health Program (OHP) at the University of Alberta played an important and pioneering role in the specialty of occupational medicine in Canada between 1984 and 1999. Its history illustrates the opportunities and obstacles in one of the smallest and most unusual medical specialties in Canada. After an auspicious beginning in 1984, with support from industry, labour, government, and the university, the OHP encountered, but overcame, many problems subsequently as a result of underfunding, organizational placement, and, after changes in leadership, interference from the provincial government department responsible for occupational health. The history of the OHP illustrates problems of small training programs and the unique problems of occupational medicine but also its potential as a model for medical training out of hospital that responds to population health as well as individual care. Le programme de santé au travail (Occupational Health Program) e l'Université d'Alberta a joué un rôle majeur de pionnier pour la spécialité e la médecine du travail au Canada entre 1984 et 1999. Son histoire illustre es facteurs favorables et les obstacles rencontrés dans le développement d'une es spécialités médicales les moins usuelles. Après des débuts prometteurs en 1984 avec l'appui de l'industrie, des travailleurs, du gouvernement et de l'université, le programme a dû composer avec divers problèmes résultant d'un sous-financement, de sa localisation et d'interventions de l'organisme de santé u travail du gouvernement provincial à la suite de changements de direction. L'histoire du programme donne prise également sur les difficultés inhérentes aux petits programmes de formation et à la médecine du travail, et peut même constituer un modèle pour une formation médicale hors de l'hôpital qui réponde aux besoins de la santé des populations et des soins aux individus.

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Authors & Contributors
Baerveldt, Cor
Richard, Vickie
Shillabeer, Evan
Evans, Simon M.
Theodore, David Michael
Wilson, Kumanan
Concepts
Medicine
Universities and colleges
Public health
Psychology
Medical schools
Science and government
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Canada
Alberta, Canada
United States
Québec (Canada)
New Zealand
Germany
Institutions
University of Alberta
University of Alberta (Canada)
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
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