Occupational medicine

Healthcare professionals throughout the world heed a calling that compels them to devote their lives to the treatment of their patients.

This book makes the case that far too much work undertaken under the banner of 'behavioural safety' is overly person-focused.

This new edition of Environmental Health and Safety Audits not only will help you put your company on course toward effective environmental compliance, but also now brings you up to date on changes in EPA and OSHA auditing policies, issues currently confronting auditing programs, and state-of-the-art strategies for managing and conducting audits.

Recognized as an authoritative treatment of an important subject area, and presented in a conversational and straightforward style, Industrial Hygiene Simplified, Second Edition is an updated edition of the original, well-received textbook.

Planning and Managing the Safety System addresses new regulations and practices to help you achieve safety and health management success.

What is required to make a workplace safe for employees and legally compliant with the Occupation Safety and Health Administration's regulations?

Other books on industrial hygiene focus more on classroom use than on practical application and are too large and cumbersome to use on the job.

An Occupational Therapist's Role in Health Literacy and Integrated Care gives students a look into one of the most important roles of a therapist: health educator.

Patient care is the cornerstone of occupational therapy, but it does not exist in isolation.

This book presents original research findings of The Million Person Study of Low-Dose Radiation Health Effects (MPS), the largest and most comprehensive epidemiologic study of its kind to investigate the health effects of low-level chronic radiation exposure on American workers and veterans throughout the 20th century.

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- La 3ª edición del Tratado de Medicina del Trabajo se plantea con el objetivo fundamental de abordar, con el máximo rigor y actualidad, los temas fundamentales que versan sobre la  Medicina del Trabajo, así como las novedades más recientes.

Explains the NHS as a political environment, and concentrates on understanding the relationships of power rather than on the role of apparent authority.

While the effects of pressure change are readily quantified in physics, chemistry, and engineering applications, the physiology, medicine, and biology of pressure changes in living systems are much more complicated.

The health-related effects of asbestos have long been mired in controversy, with industry and plaintiff attorneys playing a significant role.

This authoritative text on occupational lung disorders builds upon the fundamentals, including clinical, epidemiological, and predictive approaches.

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In its first edition, Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight established itself as the authoritative reference on the contemporary knowledge base of space medicine and standards of care for space flyers.

This authoritative reference examines the causes of--and offers workable solutions to--the widespread problem of musculoskeletal injuries among armed forces personnel.

This progressive reference redefines qualitative research as a crucial component of evidence-based practice and assesses its current and future impact on healthcare.

This book addresses the complexity of preventing, diagnosing, and treating musculoskeletal pain and disability disorders in the workplace.

This comprehensive interdisciplinary synthesis focuses on the clinical and occupational intervention processes enabling workers to return to their jobs and sustain employment after injury or serious illness as well as ideas for improving the wide range of outcomes of entry and re-entry into the workplace.

This invaluable handbook provides a basic knowledge of muscle action and co-ordination with which students of occupational therapy can applying specific techniques to specific conditions of muscle insufficiency for the restoration of function.

Overall, the negative health impacts of global climate change are anticipated to significantly outweigh positive impacts.

Considered an essential resource by many in the field, Diving and Subaquatic Medicine remains the leading text on diving medicine, written to fulfil the requirements of any general physician wishing to advise their patients appropriately when a diving trip is planned, for those accompanying diving expeditions or when a doctor is required to assess

This authoritative text on occupational lung disorders builds upon the fundamentals, including clinical, epidemiological, and predictive approaches.

The World Health Organization's recently published Global Report on Drowning found that drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide-making the information presented in this new book an important part of the global effort to reduce this health risk.

Disaster medicine is a broad and dynamic field that encompasses the medical and surgical response to mass casualty incidents including rail, air, and road traffic accidents; domestic terrorism; and pandemic outbreaks.

Excessive noise levels are generally acknowledged to have adverse effects on our environment.

This insightful book addresses recovery as a comprehensive concept for prevention of health-threats in modern societies through active lifestyles.

This book is about the well-being of today's female physicians.

Technological development has not only provided mankind with more prosperity, but with increased destructive power as well.

This book presents an innovative method to improve workers' health and prevent occupational accidents: the Change Laboratory, a method of formative intervention that enables the organization's participants to identify, with the help of facilitators, the historical and systemic origins of work processes anomalies (environmental problems, work safety and health, quality and productivity problems, problems related to labor relations, etc).

Anticipating and planning your organization's response to an emergency situation isn't just a good idea: it's a federal requirement.

Increased public concern over the control of environmental forces and industrial hazards has led to awareness for the need for improved conditions for all who work.

Carpal-tunnel and other entrapment syndromes are perhaps the most common work-related injuries currently reported.

The cognitive and behavioral implications of sleep deprivation have been noted in the medical literature for many years.

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This book integrates the growing clinical research evidence related to the emerging transdisciplinary field of occupational health and wellness.

With this first monograph, Springer-Verlag launches an unusual publishing venture.

Excerpt from Conference Address One of the most complex and significant social issues facing our nation is reform of our national health system.

Address to the Conference on Employee Mental Wellness by Walter B.

Recently, there has been interest by regulators, the public and the manufacturers of wireless devices in the issues relating to the safety of radio frequency (RF) energy.

This fifth issue in the Industry and Health Care series takes a quick turn through unpredictable and only partially charted waters.

Close followers of the evolution of the Series on Industry and Health Care will recognize in this fourth volume some continuity and some change.

The mastery of a variety of biomedical They avoided the self-destruction and dis- techniques has led our society to the solu- ease that can so readily follow the escalation tion of the problems in environmental con- of social disorder in an isolated colony.

The Springer Series on Industry and Health Care is intended to character- ize present and future ways in which industry can influence the nation's health care system in the direction of greater efficiency and effectiveness.

The springboard for this sixth volume in the Industry and Health Care series was a conference sponsored by the Center for Industry and Health Care of Boston University on June 9 and 10, 1978.