ABC of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Snashall, David; Patel, Dipti

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. There is specific emphasis on work, health and wellbeing, with links to public health, health promotion, the value of work, disabled people at work, the aging workforce, vocational rehabilitation, evidence based practice, and further chapters on the health effects of climate change and of occupational health and safety in relation to migration and terrorism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118485507
• Artikelnr.: 37344883

Autorenporträt

David Snashall, Professor of Occupational Medicine, King's College London, Honorary Consultant and Clinical Director, Occupational Health and Safety Services, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Dipti Patel, Consultant Occupational Health Physician, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, Director of Clinical Services, Medical Advisory Services for Traveller's Abroad

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors
vii Preface
ix 1 Hazards of Work
1 David Snashall 2 Health
Work and Wellbeing
7 Nerys Williams 3 Assessing theWork Environment
11 Keith T. Palmer and David Coggon 4 Practising Occupational Health
17 Anil Adisesh 5 Legal Aspects
24 Martyn Davidson 6 Ethics
31 Paul Litchfield 7 Fitness for Work
36 William Davies 8 Musculoskeletal Disorders
45 Kim Burton and Nicholas Kendall 9 Mental Health
51 Samuel B. Harvey and Max Henderson 10 Skin Disorders
59 Ian R. White 11 Respiratory Disorders
63 Ira Madan and Paul Cullinan 12 Infections
68 Dipti Patel 13 Occupational Cancers
80 John Hobson 14 Disorders of Uncertain Aetiology
88 Andy Slovak 15 Physical Agents
94 Ron McCaig 16 Ergonomics and Human Factors
107 Joanne O. Crawford 17 Genetics and Reproduction
113 Nicola Cherry 18 The AgeingWorkforce
117 Sarah Harper 19 Travel
122 Derek R. Smith
Peter A. Leggat and Dipti Patel 20 Emerging Issues
129 Judy Sng and David Koh 21 Pollution
135 Robert Maynard 22 Global Health
140 Paolo Vineis Index
149