This book looks at worker safety in the changing workplace and the challenge of ensuring a supply of top-notch OSH professionals.
The contributed chapters are authored by international experts in the field, enriched by boxed case studies and supportive concrete examples. This work sets a new standard for education in occupational health.
The book focuses on several key areas regarding workplace health promotion: prevailing health issues and risk behaviors, existing healthcare systems, historical and cultural influences on both physical and mental health, key drivers for ...
Preventing Occupational Disease and Injury
Psychosomatic effect of a health program on obese employees. [in Japanese with English abstract] San Ei Shi, 38, 11–16. Japan Industrial Safety and Health Association (JISHA). (2004). Present status of Japanese industrial safety and ...
For occupational therapists who want to incorporate health promotion or prevention into their practices, here is a thought-provoking new volume.
Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.
From Theory to Practice Carl I. Fertman, Melissa L. Grim, Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 54(11), 1337–1343. https://doi.org/10.1097/jom.0b013e3182717cf2 The Health ...
Occupational health nurses (OHNs) are front-line advocates for preventing illness and injury and protecting health in a variety of workplace settings, including the areas of agriculture, construction, health care, manufacturing, and public ...
Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers provides an image of what is currently known about the health and safety needs of older workers and the research needed to encourage social polices that guarantee older workers a meaningful share of ...