1981 Volume 3 Issue 4 Pages 317-321
This article is a brief history of occupational health as well as a perspective of the occupational medical sciences in the future. The author places emphasis on the necessity of better relations of the medical sciences to an industrialized society, which has and will continue to change very rapidly. To cope with the changing environment, the author proposes a new integrated science which is termed by him "industrial ecological sciences". Industrial ecological sciences, which is a combination of human ecology, the medical sciences, economics and industrial psychology, will provide the basic principles for occupational and environmental health in the future.
