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CANCER & WORK: HOW TO REDUCE SOCIAL HEALTH INEQUITIES BY BETTER PREVENTION AT WORKPLACES?

FREE

at 0.9 KM
Chambre des salariés Luxembourg Follow

Conference
Disease
Prevention

thu. 24 Oct.

18h30

These cancers are highly unequal diseases. Far from being distributed randomly among individuals, they are a concentrate of social inequalities. An effective fight against cancer in public health involves challenging these inequalities. This requirement is rarely encountered. This explains, in large part, the failures of the regularly proclaimed cancer war.

Occupational exposures are the primary determinant of this social inequality. In the European Union, 100,000 people die each year from cancer linked to prevention denial at work. Some professions are particularly affected: construction workers, cleaning staff, etc.

The elimination of occupational exposures would be one of the most effective forms of prevention. And yet the majority of public health campaigns revolve tirelessly around factors presented as individual behaviors (tobacco, food, sedentary lifestyle, etc.) and early detection.

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ANIMATED CONFERENCE BY LAURENT VOGEL
Laurent Vogel is a lawyer and researcher in occupational health. He works at the European Trade Union Institute in the field of occupational health where he is responsible for the publication of the magazine "Hesamag". He also teaches at the Free University of Brussels and Paris XIII. He was one of the coordinators of the book "Risks of Work. Not to lose one's life to win "(La Découverte, 2015).

Automagically translated from French