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Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Stating the Existence of a Blind Spot

The French economy has very few statistics regarding occupational health in SMEs, particularly with regard to the employer. This fact, however, is not specific to France. At the current time, it seems that there is very little work and very few statistics from abroad either on this theme. There is thus an almost universal lack of information. Occupational health appears to have been pushed away from the entrepreneurial realm.

Nevertheless, one of the founding works on occupational medicine, written by Ramazzini in the 1700s, is entitled the “Traité de la maladie des artisans” (Treaty on the illnesses of craftsmen) (De Morbis Artificum Diatriba). Its aim, wrote Ramazzini, was to understand through observation why certain trade associations seemed preserved from certain dangers, such as the plague, for example, when others presented on the contrary much stronger prevalence. As man spent more time working than doing anything else, the conditions in...

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Torrès, O. (2013). Health of Entrepreneurs. In: Carayannis, E.G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3858-8_250

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