Overview
- Offers updated, comprehensive, high-quality scientific information on the major topic of socioeconomic determinants of occupational health
- Is highly transdisciplinary, integrating cutting-edge macro-, meso- and micro-level research findings from economics, social and behavioral sciences and biomedicine
- Provides the best available scientific evidence to professionals and stakeholders on the challenging issue of social inequalities in occupational health
Part of the book series: Handbook Series in Occupational Health Sciences (HDBSOHS)
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About this book
This handbook provides a summary of more than two decades of international research on one of the leading theoretical models of work stress research; effort-reward imbalance. Consisting of 3 parts and 8 sub-parts, this essential reference work deals with theory and methods, review of research evidence on health effects, new findings from Asia, Australia, and Latin America, and model extensions and interventions. This book has a selective theoretical focus, and the large majority of chapters is restricted to the meso-level of organizational research. With a combination of research evidence derived from macro-, meso- and micro-level investigations, the inclusion of a broad spectrum of material and psychosocial occupational stressors, and with its unique focus on socioeconomic determinants this handbook offers a valuable source of information to a broad audience interested in occupational health science.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Töres Theorell is Emeritus Professor at Stockholm University. He presently serves as scientific consultant for the Institute for Stress Research at the university and is active at the department of Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Between 1967 and 1978, Theorell worked as a physician in internal medicine. From 1979 he has been a researcher in stress medicine and social medicine. Between 1995 and 2006 he was Director of the Swedish National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health and was also a professor at the Karolinska Institute. Since the mid-1980s he has published in the area of cultural participation and health. Theorell´s research covers diverse areas in health, from epidemiology to clinical observational studies and controlled interventions. Physiological stress mechanisms relating to cardiovascular disease has been one of Theorell´s most prominent areas of work. Theorell has been the first author or co-author of more than 400 originalpublications in international, peer-reviewed scientific journals. He has also contributed chapters to numerous handbooks and textbooks in English. He has, for instance, contributed to the Handbook of Culture and Health (eds Clift, Camic, Wilson, Oxford University Press, forthcoming). His most widely quoted publication was with Robert Karasek (Healthy Work, Basic Books, New York, 1990).
Sections in the Handbook:
Macro-level determinants of occupational health: Akizumi Tsutsumi,
Meso-level determinants of occupational health: Morten Wahrendorf and Jian Li,
Micro-level determinants of occupational health: Bradley J. Wright
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Socioeconomic Determinants of Occupational Health
Book Subtitle: From Macro-level to Micro-level Evidence
Editors: Töres Theorell
Series Title: Handbook Series in Occupational Health Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05031-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Behavioral Science and Psychology, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05031-3Due: 26 December 2022
Series ISSN: 2730-7409
Series E-ISSN: 2730-7417
Number of Pages: X, 560
Topics: Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine, Health Economics
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Consumer Packaged Goods, Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking, Health & Hospitals, Pharma