In the 19th and early 20th centuries, an industrial medicine physician named Alice Hamilton raised public consciousness about worker health and safety through her practice of “shoe leather epidemiology”—going into dark and dusty factories to interview laborers and evaluate their working conditions. Hamilton’s investigations of worker exposures to lead, mercury, and other toxic materials were […]
At University of Iowa Health Care, Occupational Health (also know as Occupational Medicine) undertakes some unique responsibilities. While they officially provide workers’ health services for both employees of UI Health Care as well as surrounding employers throughout the Corridor, this can look very different from day to day, or even patient to patient. Occupational Health […]
While COVID-19 vaccinations are well underway in Iowa, Claudia Corwin, MD, MPH, assistant professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, and associate medical director of University of Iowa Health Care’s Employee Health Clinic, has been working to help ensure one critical sector of the population is not overlooked — Iowa’s migrant and seasonal agricultural […]