Fitness for Work

5. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-964324-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 736 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1084 g

The 'bible' of occupational health, Fitness for Work is the most in-depth and comprehensive resource available on the effects of ill health on employment. Expert authors provide practical guidance on the employment potential of anyone with an illness or disability, as well as examining the art and skills of fitness for work assessment and its ethical framework.

Fully revised and updated, Fitness for Work, fifth edition now includes, for the first time, important new chapters on work in cancer survivors, health promotion in the workplace, and managing and avoiding sickness absence. Following in the all-encompassing and comprehensive tradition of the previous editions, it also continues to provide coverage of and information on support for rehabilitation, work at older ages, health screening, and the full array of medical and surgical health
problems that can affect fitness for work.

Chapters are organized by medical condition to enable effortless reference, and are co-authored by a topic specialist and a specialist occupational physician providing a comprehensive view of the subject. The latest developments in legislation and government guidelines are included ensuring the book is up-to-date and provides the most current procedures in the field.

Fitness for Work delivers a wealth of valuable consensus guidance, codes of practice, and locally evolved standards to enable well-informed clinical judgements to be made. All occupational health professionals should have a copy of this highly-regarded resource on their desks.

Zielgruppe

Occupational health practitioners, corporate personnel managers, health and safety officers, lawyers, employers, trade union officials, public health practitioners, hospital doctors, and GPs with an interest in occupational medicine.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palmer, Keith T

Brown, Ian

Hobson, John

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Umweltmedizin, Arbeitsmedizin, Tropenmedizin, Sportmedizin Arbeitsmedizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Arbeitsplatz, Arbeitsschutz, Gefahrstoffschutz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Keith Palmer and Ian Brown: A general framework for assessing fitness for work
2: Gillian Howard: Legal aspects of fitness for work
3: Gillian Howard and Tony Williams: The Equality Act
4: Mansel Aylward and Debbie Cohen: Support, rehabilitation and interventions in restoring fitness for work
5: Paul Litchfield: Ethics for occupational physicians
6: Jon Poole and Richard Hardie: Neurological disorders
7: Richard Heron and Neil Greenberg: Mental health and psychiatric disorders
8: Ian Brown and Martin Prevett: Epilepsy
9: Stuart Mitchell and John Pitts: Vision and eye disorders
10: Linda Luxon and Finlay Dick: Hearing and vestibular disorders
11: Keith Palmer and C. Greenough: Spinal disorders
12: Anne Marie O'Donnell and Chris Little: Orthopaedics and trauma of the limbs
13: 1. Steve Ryder and Karen Walker-Bone: Rheumatological disorders
14: Ira Madan and Simon Hellier: Gastrointestinal and liver disorders
15: Eugene Waclawski and G. Gill: Diabetes mellitus and other endocrine disorders
16: Julia Smedley and R. S. Kaczmarski: Haematological disorders
17: Anne Price and Michael Petch: Cardiovascular disorders
18: Keith Palmer and Paul Cullinan: Respiratory disorders
19: John Hobson and E. Brown: Renal and urological disease
20: Sally Coomber and P. A. Harris: Women at work
21: Tony Williams and Bill Thomas: Fitness for work after surgery or critical illness
22: Ursula Ferriday and I. S. Foulds: Dermatological disorders
23: Paul Grime and Christopher Conlon: HIV
24: David Brown and Henrietta Bowden-Jones: Alcohol and drugs misuse
25: Caroline Swales and Jeffrey Aronson: Medication
26: Henry Goodall and John Grimley Evans: The older worker
27: Jon Poole: Ill Health Retirement
28: Tim Carter, Heather Major, Andrew Colvin and Sally Evans: Fitness to drive
29: Ching Aw and David S. Q. Koh: Health screening
30: Richard Preece and Dean Royles: Managing and avoiding sickness absence
31: Steve Boorman and Ian Banks: Health promotion in the workplace
32: Philip Wynn and Shirley D'Sa: Cancer
Appendix 1: Civil aviationStuart Mitchell:
Appendix 2: Seafarer fitnessTim Carter:
Appendix 3: Offshore workersMike Doig:
Appendix 4: The medical assessment of working diversRobbert Hermann and Phil Bryson:
Appendix 5: General aspects of fitness for work overseasDipti Patel:
Appendix 6: Workers exposed to hand transmitted vibrationsIan Lawson and Roger Cooke:

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Palmer was Editor-in-chief of the BMJ Group journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine from 2004-2009. Currently, he chairs the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council and serves as Academic Dean and Deputy President of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of London. Professor of Occupational Medicine at the University of Southampton, he has held a full-time tenured Medical Research Council (MRC) consultant grade post in
occupational epidemiology in Southampton continuously since 1995, receiving a personal chair in 2007. Professor Palmer has authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers and reports covering many topics related to work and health. In 2012 he was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Pesticides.

Dr Brown is a medically qualified registered specialist and consultant in occupational medicine and toxicology. He is also a graduate in agricultural biochemistry and nutrition and has a wide range of knowledge and experience covering occupational health medicine, toxicology, agriculture, and food safety. Dr Brown is Director of Occupational Health and Head of Department at the University of Oxford and Honorary NHS Consultant Physician. He was formally independent chair of the government's
Pesticide Residues Committee, serving from 2000 until 2011, and remains a member of the Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances of the Health and Safety Executive Board. Dr Brown is also Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Animal Feedingstuffs, a member of the General Advisory Committee on Science of
the Food Standards Agency, and has been appointed as a strategic advisor to the Faculty of Occupational Medicine.

John Hobson is a practising consultant occupational physician. He has been the honorary editor of the journal Occupational Medicine for over ten years. He holds academic appointments in occupational medicine at Keele, Manchester and Birmingham universities.