Vice Chancellery for Health at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences provides health care services to more than 4.6 million people through its Primary Health Care (PHC) system consisting of comprehensive health care centers, health posts, and health houses falling under it, in 23 districts of the province. Out of the said population, just over four million live in urban areas and the rest in rural areas. There are 10 flagship programs, in which health services are provided to people. One of the programs is “Occupational health”.

The program aims at planning and implementation of supervision and inspection of industries and services and service workshops; identification, evaluation, and control of harmful factors in the workplace; measurement and analysis of harmful factors in the workplace; providing occupational health services to farmers, construction workshops, hospitals, prisoners and carpet weavers; review of reports assessing harmful factors in the workplace and adapting them to international standards; monitoring the plan to remove asbestos and mercury from the workplace; review, adaptation, and recognition of hard and harmful jobs in workshops, companies, and factories of Isfahan Province’s industries; and planning and supervising the formation and activities of the Committee for Technical Protection and Occupational Health.