Clinical Advances and Future Challenges for Occupational Health
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Epidemiology & Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 4
Special Issue Editors
Interests: occupational health; epidemiology; public health
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: occupational medicine; work-related stress; mental health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ongoing changes in occupational environments due to new technologies such as Industry 4.0, nanotechnologies, and artificial intelligence represent a global concern for both organizations and workers, as many acute and chronic, often unpredictable, occupational hazards could impact workers’ health, leading to occupational diseases (ODs). Moreover, people are working longer, and an aging workforce needs to acquire new skills to face new technological hazards; the clinical implications of this trend are not well known, and a special effort is required in order to both minimize the occurrence of new work-related diseases and to diagnose their onset early. To date, many studies have shown an increased rate of work-related diseases and disability-adjusted life years (DALY) attributable to new or already known occupational hazards globally. The update on research advances in occupational health, focusing on clinical topics, is pivotal to identifying preventive and therapeutic strategies aimed at minimizing the global burden of ODs.
This Special Issue aims to provide a communication platform for occupational health, and we encourage submissions of papers describing related, original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Gabriele D’Ettorre
Dr. Vincenza Pellicani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- work-related disease
- precision medicine
- gender differences
- aging workforce
- preventive strategies
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