Contribution of Occupational Health to the Solutions of Environmental Health Problems

It is especially appropriate to discuss the integral relationship between occupational medicine and the variety of community environmental health problems at this Congress on Occupational Health. The contribution from industry, in terms of hazardous products and by-products, has been emphasized, and sometimes overemphasized, while the substantial contribution to the solution of environmental health problems from occupational health sources is little appreciated. Many of the people in this audience, primarily concerned with occupational health problems, were among the first to note the extension of hazard, real and potential, to an ever larger consumer public as the products of advancing technology were translated through industrial production to wider application and use. The Council on Occupational Health, during the past several decades, through a series of white papers recommended to the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association a greater involvement of the medical profession in the broader and rapidly increasing health