title: [Occupational health services in Norway in the 1990's].
abstract: Around 1,100 physicians are engaged (part time or full time) in the occupational health service. The service takes about 5% of the national resource of physicians' work, costs the businesses around NOK 600 millions annually and covers 35% of the work force. The occupational health service is a heterogeneous service with great variations in organization, size, resources, costs and activities. 40% of the physicians' work concerns work-related activities. Treatment of workers' diseases which are not related to exposure at the work place takes up 22% of the physicians' working time. A fair proportion of the personnel in the occupational health service are well educated, but the service as a whole makes only a partial effort to promote the national objectives for the working environment. In spite of this, no authority has accepted responsibility for supervising the service.
authors.affiliation: Seksjon for helsetjenesteforskning, Statens Institutt for Folkehelse, Oslo.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wannag
mesh_terms: D009664:Norway; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
vernacular_title: Bedriftshelsetjenesten i Norge i begynnelsen av 1990-årene.