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Managing your mental health is mostly about ‘having a timely frank talk’
What do you do when you feel low? I asked this to a few of my close friends and acquaintances. The answers I got varied from, ‘I eat sugar,’ ‘go for a drink to a pub alone even if a friend is not available to...
Gig economy and worker health
Gig work is temporary or freelance work performed by a person independently on an informal or on-demand basis. Gig work consists of income-earning activities that do not have long-term employer-employee relationship. Gig economy is the contribution of these workers to the economy of the businesses...
Heart attack and cancer on the rise: what is being done?
On 23rd May 2023, a leading newspaper in Mumbai carried an article stating that ‘Heart attacks took 26 lives a day in Mumbai, cancer 25 in 2022.’ And this is just an estimate – the actual numbers could be slightly higher. That means around 10,000...
End of Covid pandemic is not an end of the good habits it taught
On Friday, 5th May, the WHO (World Health Organization) declared the end of pandemic. The WHO on 11th March 2020 had declared the Covid-19 outbreak a global pandemic. Prior to this WHO had declared on 30th January 2020 the ongoing spread of infections as Public...
Carbon monoxide: a dangerous gas in homes, offices and factories
Presence of carbon monoxide (CM) can cause irritating symptoms and even death depending on its concentration in the ambient air. CM is present not just in factories and offices but in homes too. Basement car parking spaces are also a source where carbon monoxide (CM)...
Toxic Positivity at workplace
On 3rd March 2023, Times of India, a newspaper, flashed a news with a heading ‘Toxic body positivity: Ranbir Kapoor says actors are starved, unhappy, and pained, do not eat enough.’ Ranbir Kapoor is a young popular actor in Indian cinema. He spoke about this...
Kharghar heatwave deaths: seek Occupational Health advice too!
Sunday, 16th April 2023 was a deadly day for 14 people who had come to attend a social rally to be addressed by A-list politicians in Kharghar, a suburb in Navi Mumbai, India. As they came to attend a socio-political rally, the 14 were dead...
All women work: a brief history of work and their health
All women work, including the full-time homemakers. How does the work (job) impact women and their health? Women have been working since time immemorial, mostly at home doing all the household work. In the olden days it was common to have 5 or more children...
Making workplace disability-friendly
If you have arthritis, a bone joint disability, or any other medical condition that restricts your mobility (movements), and if your workplace is safe for you, it is disability-friendly. Is your workplace designed to make you move freely so that the chances of your tripping...
Founder, occupationist.com
We all work, so some of our diseases could be occupational.
Dr Ajay Sati is a medical graduate from Grant Medical College, Mumbai. He has post-grad qualifications in OH. This site is to make people aware that occupations can also cause disease and to be mindful of that. Individuals, MSMEs or large corporations can contact him for queries on OH issues. He has worked almost 30 years as an OH physician, mostly with MNCs in India and the Middle East. He has been blogging for decades on beingwell.in, making him perhaps India's first health blogger. beingwell.in is a website devoted to wellness, and is being currently reconstructed.
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