A way to turn to each patient We propose that inclusion of environmental epidemiology in physician training may be considered as a way of minimizing the problem. The same applies to family units. This approach also creates the opportunity to prevent diseases, a goal permitting the realization of one of the most ethical components of medical care. The role of knowledge on genetic susceptibility and gene-environment interaction in diseases prevention is difficult to overestimate. Decision making on professional fitness of the employee - Possible Situations 1.
Exposure is accepted as an occupational risk factor .
The answer needed may be easily established, with maintenance of principle of worker health protection. Person with coronary heart disease cannot be employee at rayon manufactures with exposure to carbon disulfide, alike as men with neuropathology cannot receive physician's agreement on fitness for work with exposure to lead. Uncertainty regarding risk factors A . An underestimation, under these condition due to lack of scientific evidence, is fraught with the hazard of increased exposure of workers to risk. Recognition of such problems must be the most critical step toward optimal procedures for dealing with them.