Office phone No.: +886-2-2312-3456 ext. 67183

Fax No.:+886-2-2371-2360

Email: eom@ntuh.gov.tw

Our Goals

In the past, those who died or were injured in occupational accidents often lacked the protection they needed by society and labor laws. When the Act for Protecting Worker of Occupational Accidents was passed, victims of occupational accidents could get basic living security and assistance in occupational training. The Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, by combining services such as prevention, compensation, and return to work, provides truly comprehensive medical treatment. In addition to attending to patients, doctors work with occupational safety and health specialists and go directly to the patient’s work place to help determine the causation of the occupational injury or disease to give workers with an occupational injury or disease safe treatment and reasonable care.

Functions

For clinical treatment, the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine has a professional, passionate medical team who give victims of occupational hazards the help they deserve by providing uninterrupted medical service through treatment, rehabilitation, work ability assessments, information on applying for compensation, and more. Our Diagnosis and Treatment Center can assist workers, employers, and the government better understand the cause of an occupational injury or disease, so as to improve the working environment and remove potential harms. A comprehensive management system which provides swift diagnosis, prevention, compensation, and return-to-work services. It is set to be the prime example of occupational disease treatment and prevention in Taiwan and potentially all of Asia. NTUH’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine above all is a premier place for instruction and research, allowing students in NTU College of Medicine and College of Public Health to gain earlier exposure to fields related to environmental and occupational medicine (EOM). Here, teachers and students learn together, further spurring research and making the Department of EOM a bastion of exploration into the field of EOM.

Medical Instruction

• Outpatient treatment for occupational injury or disease
• Evaluation of environmental or occupational injury or disease
• Work ability and injury assessments
• Occupational therapy; Vocational rehabilitation; Medical removal
• Physical rehabilitation; Return-to-work services
• Information on applying for labor insurance benefits
• General and special health examinations and reexaminations for workers
• Needlestick injury follow-ups
• Preventive medicine

Prospective Development

There are two main areas our department will develop. The first is to cultivate EOM doctors. The second is to marry clinical medicine, occupational safety and health, and environmental and ecological medicine and become a bastion for international EOM talent cultivation and research.

Initial areas of focus: the training program for resident physicians of occupational diseases, the NTUH EOM program, assisting in formulating and revising the standards for diagnosis of occupational and environmental diseases, research and development in the compensation and return-to-work system for those with an occupational disability, and more.　

Mid- and long-term areas of focus include:

1. Provide comprehensive EOM services through cooperative education in which government agencies, corporates, and companies in Taiwan's scientific and industrial parks work together with the Department of EOM.
2. Environmental and occupational risk evaluation and management.
3. Develop a cost-benefit analysis method to stimulate efforts in workplace prevention and health care.
4. Research and development of biodetection and biomarkers.
5. Research in ecological medicine.
6. Gene-environment interaction.
7. Environmental and occupational epidemiological research.
8. Research in preventive medicine.