Occupational medicine helps maintain and boost worker health and prevent disease, while environmental medicine acts to prevent health disturbances caused by harmful environmental factors and cure such ailments.
The Haeundae Paik Hospital Occupational and Environmental medicine department operates an outpatient clinic to diagnose and evaluate occupational diseases, work related disorders and environmentally relevant diseases. It conducts various health checkup programs such as a special workers heath checkup, checkups prior to distribution, regular checkups and employment checkups. The department’s visa checkup center offers a visa checkup service for the USA, Canada, Australia, China and other countries.
It also carries out research and academic activities related to health problems which can occur in the work place and standard living environments based on basic studies of toxicology, environmental health, epidemiology, and the like.