title: Current status of education and training in occupational health and their development programs in China.
abstract: There are 40 post graduate schools of public health in China, from where 1,400 students are graduating every year. Fourteen percent of them are going into occupational health field. A total of about 25,000 specialists are now working in the occupational health field. However, this number is only 1 percent of all health workers in China. Facts on the educational resources in China including responsible institutions and programs for such occupational health specialists are introduced and discussed. Finally a program for increasing the number of occupational health specialists in the Eighth Five-year Plan of China is introduced.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Institute of Labour Hygiene and Occupational Diseases, Department of Occupational Health, Ministry of Public Health, China.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D006801:Humans; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000193:education*; D000078329:Workforce