1701 Scaling up workers’ health coverage through primary health care

Aim To explore ways of upskilling primary health care to offer essential occupational health to a broader population; some country examples. Presenters: 1 Prof Jukka Takala, 2 Dr Ramnik Parekh, 3 Dr Orrapan Untimanon, 4 Dr Hanifa M Denny, 5 Dr Ezequiel Lopez, 6 Dr Muzimkhulu Zungu, 7 Dr Ahmet Ozluh, 8 Dr Paul Smits 1 President of International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH); Senior Consultant, Ministry of Manpower Services Centre, Singapore 2 Chair- Mission BOHS: Indian Association of Occupational Health (IAOH), Mumbai, India 3 Bureau of Occupational and Environmental Diseases, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand 4 Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia 5 Clinica Belgrano Family Medicine and Occupational Health Department, Quilmes, Argentina 6 National Institute for Occupational Health School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria 7 Republic of Turkey Ministry of Health, General Directorate of Public Health, Ankara, Turkey 8 Centre for evidence-based education, Academic Medical Centre (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands