title: Medical surveillance in the workplace: overview.
abstract: Medical surveillance in the workplace is the systematic collection and evaluation of employees' health data to identify specific instances of illness or health trends suggesting an adverse effect of workplace exposures on employees' health. This process is coupled with actions to reduce hazardous workplace exposures, as reviewed in this issue.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rempel
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016272:Occupational Health; D011786:Quality Control