Dear Colleagues,

Previously, occupational medicine has focused on the elimination of risks in the physical work environment, which have initiated a regulated and standardized work environment in many countries. However, workers still suffer from risks posed by the physical work environment, pointing towards a need for a shift in focus towards individual susceptibility and integration of health promotion and prevention in the organization of the work and environment. Nonetheless, the workforce stills need to maintain and improve work ability and good health due to increasing retirement ages; thus, initiatives targeting these objectives are warranted.

In particular, less educated employees and employees exposed to high levels of occupational physical activity and chemical or organic exposure are at a risk of decreased work ability. Occupational physical activity may have adverse health consequences, contrary to leisure time physical activity, which is called the physical activity paradox, although the physiological mechanisms surrounding this paradox are yet to be understood. The incidence of allergic diseases continues to rise and new occupational exposure to chemical and organic compounds are constantly introduced in the work environment. This is a general problem in workplaces, but individual hypersensitivity may also be a problem.

Dr. Mette Korshøj
Dr. Tanja Korfitsen Carøe
Guest Editors

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• worksite intervention
• health promotion/prevention at the worksite
• mechanisms explaining the physical activity paradox
• healthy workforce promotion
• chemical and organic compounds at the worksite/workplace
• occupational asthma
• occupational allergy
• occupational eczema/dermatitis