Costs of occupational circulatory disease.
This chapter analyzes the overt and hidden economic costs of work-related cardiovascular diseases Affected individuals and society at large, rather than employers, pay much of the costs. Economic interventions to motivate public health approaches to preventing CVD are explored.
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