Applying the exposome concept to working life health: The EU EPHOR project.

ABSTRACT: Exposures at work have a major impact on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Current risk reduction policies and strategies are informed by existing scientific evidence, which is limited due to the challenges of studying the complex relationship between exposure at work and outside work and health. We define the working life exposome as all occupational and related nonoccupational exposures. The latter includes nonoccupational exposures that may be directly or indirectly influenced by or interact with the working life of the individual in their relation to health. The Exposome Project for Health and Occupational Research aims to advance knowledge on the complex working life exposures in relation to disease beyond the single high exposure-single health outcome paradigm, mapping and relating in

SUBMITTER: Pronk A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9005258 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature