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occupational injuries  

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  • Occupational injuries are any health problem resulting directly from activities which take place when the patient was at the workplace or in some other way which result from working in a specific job. The occupations which most clearly and often startlingly suffer from high incidence of occupational injuries include the military services, as recent conflicts have made clear. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Occupational Injuries]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/occupational_injuries

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