Special Edition of JKMS provides full information on Korea’s Occ. Diseases

 Seventeen academic papers contributed by OSHRI-KOSHA

January 3, 2011

Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute of Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency
(OSHRI-KOSHA; Director General: Seong-Kyu Kang) published a special issue (supplement issue) to the Journal of Korean Medical Science (JKMS). The special issue contains 17 academic papers, which
provides information about occupational diseases found in Korea.

The JKMS is an academic journal listed in the Science Citation Index (SCI) of the US. The journals in the SCI only include internationally well-recognized ones, considering the quality of the papers and the
number of times they are cited as references.

This special issue of the JKMS provided a systematic picture about the history of Korea’s occupational
diseases and their current status. A total of seventeen papers are in the special issue in its 126-page,
English edition. The issue will be very useful academic information, widely available in public libraries
and universities. In addition, the full texts of the papers are also available at the JKMS’s website at
http://jkms.org/.

“The special edition contains full information about Korea’s occupational diseases. The publication of
this special issue has much to contribute to enhancing academic study of health at work not only in
Korea, but across the globe,” said a researcher from OSHRI-KOSHA.

<The list of academic papers in the supplement issue of the JKMS>

Journal of Korean Medical Science, Volume 25 (Suppl); December 2010

- Occupational Diseases in Korea

- Current Status of Pneumoconiosis Patients in Korea

- Occupational Asthma in Korea

- Occupational Neurological Disorders in Korea

- Occupational Hepatic Disorders in Korea

- Occupational Reproductive Function Abnormalities and Bladder Cancer in Korea

- Occupational Skin Diseases in Korea

- Occupational Infection in Korea

- Occupational Hearing Loss in Korea

- Ionizing Radiation-induced Diseases in Korea

- Characteristics of Work-related MSDs in Korea and Their Work-relatedness Evaluation

- Occupational Psychiatric Disorders in Korea

- Occupational Respiratory Cancer in Korea

- Occupational Lymphohematopoietic Cancer in Korea

- Work-related Cerebro-Cardiovascular Diseases in Korea

- Disease Prevalence and Mortality among Agricultural Workers in Korea

- Management System of Occupational Diseases in Korea: Statistics, Report and Monitoring System