title: THE PHYSICIAN AND INDUSTRY.
abstract: Many employers are interested in helping their employees improve and maintain health through a program of preventive medicine designed to supplement health services which already exist in the community. The objectives of such a health program can be attained only through team work between physicians, both within and outside industry. Such specific objectives as the development of measures for the maintenance and improvement of health and the prevention of disease; the provision of readily available diagnostic, treatment and counselling services; the rehabilitation of disabled employees; and the effective administration of sick-benefit plans require the closest communication and co-operation among the occupational health service, the private physician, and other health and welfare agencies. Only by such liaison can the maximum benefits of both preventive and curative medicine be extended to the employee-in his best interest as well as that of the community and the employer.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D010820:Physicians; D011315:Preventive Medicine; D012046:Rehabilitation
keywords: INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; REHABILITATION