The research deals with the extent and importance of correlation and interactive between industrial design- through the ergonomics- and epidemiology as a discipline of community medicine, with the aim of indicating importance and role of industrial design and epidemiology combined in handling and treating the health problems and injuries in the workplaces, and emphasizing and enhancing the role of ergonomics of industrial design and epidemiology in spreading the health awareness, providing health care , adapting a healthy workplace to the workers, minimizing or preventing accidents and injuries in the workplaces, finding a cooperative and interactive relation between the industrial designers and the epidemiologists, and identifying each of them to the other through the sharing of their specialists in the study of workplace diseases, and trying to establish a common cognitive base between them and understanding of their methodology.
The research is divided into six chapters as follows:
Introduction to the research, industrial design: modern trends and fields, epidemiology: concepts and applications, interactive relation between industrial design and epidemiology, results (deduction) and application. The research ended by setting the general results and recommendations of the research.
The results of the research were applied in the form of a suggested relation for the interaction or cooperation that can happen between the industrial designer (or ergonomist) and the epidemiologist through stages of conducting an evaluation of a workplace where problems appeared (musculoskeletal injuries or disorders) .
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