Occupational medicine

It is a pleasure to introduce this special volume of the Industry and Health Care Series.

Physical Literacy across the World records the progress of the concept of physical literacy over the last decade.

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

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This book is intended as a manual and offers an essential tool for practicing and occupational dermatologists, for postgraduates training in dermatology and allergo-immunology, and for allergologists and occupational physicians.

Fundamentals of Frontline Surgery is an easy to read text, written by world class faculty, that provides clinicians with succinct and didactic information about what to do in high intensity, resource limited situations.

Health and Safety Communication: A Practical Guide Forward is an easy introduction to the principles and practice of health and safety communications, providing all you need to know to design and implement communications efforts on a wide range of health and safety topics and issues.

- 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.

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.

This is the long-awaited pocket text on risk assessment for students and professionals in all health and safety fields.

The first guide to cover aspects of voice loss from an occupational health perspective, this reference covers procedures to detect, assess, and prevent voice loss in schools, industrial facilities, and other workplace environments, as well as covers occupational groups at risk and risk factors for developing voice loss-analyzing various chemical, environmental, psychological, and medical causes of this potentially work-related condition.

Spirituality is an important aspect of occupational therapy theory and practice, yet it remains little understood.

Within the digital era, agile working is imperative for organisations and workers to meet the needs of customers, service-users and ever-changing markets.

Occupational Safety and Health for the Young Professional provides a compelling and comprehensive-yet easy-to-read-guide for students and aspiring professionals looking to work in the field of occupational safety and health (S&H).

Fully revised for this second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health provides a concise practice-based guide.

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

There are overwhelming demands for health and rehabilitation services due to rise in the number of disabled people.

From childhood to millennials and beyond, it is essential we take a life-course approach to occupation and work when in pain.

This book addresses the limited information on vision training and the importance of having knowledge of superior visual skills in our everyday, individualised environment including the classroom, workspace, and sports setting.

Safety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm.

With a large proportion of emergency admissions due to occupational health problems, the effect this can have on your practice cannot be ignored.

This book explores patient safety themes in developed, developing and transitioning countries.

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

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

Work has never been as safe as it seems today.

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

Physical Literacy across the World records the progress of the concept of physical literacy over the last decade.

This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being.

This book discriminates and emphasizes approaches that are likely to be productive in terms of understanding the causation and mechanisms of occupational lung diseases.

This book discusses how digital technology and demographic changes are transforming the patient experience, services, provision, and planning of health and social care.

Based on the work of the WASHCost project run by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), this book provides an evaluation of the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sectors in the context of developing countries and is the first systematic study of applying the life-cycle cost approach to assessing allocations.

This comprehensive guide is an essential resource for professionals working in industries that use isocyanates in the manufacturing of polyurethanes, foams, coatings, adhesives, and other materials.

The Dutch experience has influenced the debate on euthanasia and death with dignity around the globe, especially with regard to whether physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia should be legitimized or legalized.

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

This book provides a practical guide for all those working in or with Medical Examiner Services in England and Wales.

This new edition of Occupational and Environmental Medicine concentrates more on the newer kinds of occupational disease including those (like RSI and pesticide poisoning) where exposure and effects are difficult to understand.

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.

How do accidents and disasters occur?

Emphasizing the impact of air toxins and contaminants on human health, this Second Edition examines the latest research from the epidemiology to the cellular mechanisms underlying cardiopulmonary responses to air pollution.

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).

The scope of occupational health nursing practice has expanded and taken on a variety of roles, giving rise to opportunities for nurses to care for workers in various workplace settings.

This second edition of the well-regarded Multiple Choice Questions and Revision Aid in Occupational Medicine continues as a comprehensive revision and study resource for those preparing for professional examinations in occupational health, occupational medicine and occupational health & safety.

Since our first manned space flights we have learned much about how the human body adapts to the space environment and in particular, to the absence of gravity.

The previous edition of this useful text on epidemiologic methods for studying injuries and evaluating interventions to prevent them provides specific objectives for research in the various stages of injury control planning and implementation, including the types of data needed to reach the objectives.

Biosecurity in the Age of Synthetic Biology is a comprehensive review of the biosecurity issues faced by the innovative and rapidly evolving field of synthetic biology.

This book highlights the work of pioneers in this field, in order to inspire their peers, healthcare leaders and an interested audience.

Spirituality is an important aspect of occupational therapy theory and practice, yet it remains little understood.

Based on the study of a police organization in England, this book explores the role of social relations in the ways that people construct, mobilize, consume, and reconstruct meaning about wellbeing.