Curriculum Block

Objectives

• Describe how occupation plays an important role in the health of patients.
• Recognize some of the most common occupational issues affecting people in our society.
• Explain that occupational factors affect a wide breadth of systems, including respiratory (fibrotic lung disease, asthma, cancer), musculoskeletal, neurological (neuropathy, hearing loss), and psychiatric (stress).
• Identify your patients as workers.

Assessments

• IF CAE 1

Tags

Epidemiology Health Advocate Health Advocate Identify the determinants of health of the populations that they serve; Host Defense and Neoplasia Integration Foundation Part 5 Week 4 IF Week 4 Occupational Medicine Environment Work-Related Health Issues 1.7 Counsel and educate patients and their families to empower them to participate in their care and enable shared decision-making 1.9 Provide health care services to patients, families, and communities aimed at preventing health problems or maintaining health 2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations. 2.4 Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resource allocation, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations 2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care. 3.6 Locate, appraise, and incorporate evidence from research related to patients’ health problems and the provision of healthcare 3.8 Obtain and use information about individual patients and their caregivers, populations of patients, or communities with which patients identify to improve care 3.9 Continually identify, analyze, and implement new knowledge, guidelines, standards, technologies, products, or services that have been demonstrated to improve outcomes 5.6 Demonstrate a critical understanding of personal, professional and institutional power and privilege and utilize anti-oppressive practice to create patient experiences where marginalization and oppression are minimized. 6.1 Understand the systems of healthcare, including federal, provincial, municipal and local, and the influences they have on the health of individuals and populations 6.2 Identify aspects of the healthcare system that serve as barriers and enablers of providing healthcare to and optimizing the health of patients and the population 6.3 Advocate for quality patient care and optimal patient care systems that support patient- and population-centred care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable 6.4 Apply concepts of global health and social medicine to the health of individual patients and populations using the ecology, economy, equity framework 6.8 Participate in identifying system-level gaps and errors and, where appropriate, identify, implement or participate in potential system-level solutions Asbestosis [C24.800.127] Inflammatory Bowel Diseases [C06.405.205.731] Lung Diseases, Interstitial [C08.381.483] Lung Neoplasms [C04.588.894.797.520] Occupational Diseases [C24] Occupational Exposure [N06.850.460.350.600] Occupational Health [N01.400.525] Social Determinants of Health [N01.400.675]