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Handbook of Disability, Work and Health

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Editors:
  1. Ute Bültmann

    1. Department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen Department of Health Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands

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  2. Johannes Siegrist

    1. Medizinische Fakultät, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldo Medizinische Fakultät, Düsseldorf, Germany

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  • Offers updated, comprehensive scientific information on a major topic of occupational health research
  • Represents an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating behavioral and social sciences with biomedical sciences
  • Provides the best available scientific evidence on the interplay between work, health and disability from an international panel of eminent experts

Part of the book series: Handbook Series in Occupational Health Sciences (HDBSOHS, volume 1)

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Table of contents (35 entries)

  1. A Human Rights Perspective on Work Participation

    • Jerome Bickenbach

  2. Addictive Disorders: Problems and Interventions at Workplace

    • Clemens Veltrup, Ulrich John

  3. Burden of Injury due to Occupational Exposures

    • Jukka Takala

  4. Cancer Survivors at the Workplace

    • Anja Mehnert-Theuerkauf

  5. Common Mental Disorders and Work

    • Silje Endresen Reme

  6. Concepts and Social Variations of Disability in Working-Age Populations

    • Johannes Siegrist, Jian Li

  7. Concepts of Work Ability in Rehabilitation

    • Kari-Pekka Martimo, Esa-Pekka Takala

  8. Coronary Heart Disease and Return to Work

    • Angelique de Rijk

  9. Employment as a Key Rehabilitation Outcome

    • Kerstin Ekberg, Christian Ståhl

  10. Facilitating Competitive Employment for People with Disabilities

    • Gary R. Bond, Robert E. Drake, Jacqueline A. Pogue

  11. Factors of Competitive Employment for People with Severe Mental Illness, from Acquisition to Tenure

    • Marc Corbière, Élyse Charette-Dussault, Patrizia Villotti

  12. IGLOO: A Framework for Return to Work Among Workers with Mental Health Problems

    • Karina Nielsen, Joanna Yarker, Fehmidah Munir, Ute Bültmann

  13. Implementing Best Practice Models of Return to Work

    • Vicki L. Kristman, Cecile R. L. Boot, Kathy Sanderson, Kathryn E. Sinden, Kelly Williams-Whitt

  14. Investing in Integrative Active Labour Market Policies

    • Finn Diderichsen

  15. Occupational Causes of Cancer

    • Jack Siemiatycki, Mengting Xu

  16. Occupational Determinants of Affective Disorders

    • Reiner Rugulies, Birgit Aust, Ida E. H. Madsen

  17. Occupational Determinants of Cardiovascular Disorders Including Stroke

    • Töres Theorell

  18. Occupational Determinants of Cognitive Decline and Dementia

    • Claudine Berr, Noémie Letellier

  19. Occupational Determinants of Musculoskeletal Disorders

    • Alexis Descatha, Bradley A. Evanoff, Annette Leclerc, Yves Roquelaure

  20. Personal and Environmental Factors Influencing Work Participation Among Individuals with Chronic Diseases

    • Ranu Sewdas, Astrid de Wind, Femke I. Abma, Cécile R. L. Boot, Sandra Brouwer
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About this book

This book presents a summary of research evidence on links between work, health and disability. Across two sections it summarizes updated knowledge on adverse effects of distinct occupational hazards, and it covers concerns with employment opportunities or restrictions.The handbook delivers an overview of material and psychosocial factors as occupational hazards on working people’s physical or mental health that may result in functional impairment and disability. This knowledge can be instrumental in strengthening efforts of professionals and other stakeholders to promote health-conducive working conditions and prevent work-related disability risks. It also covers concerns with employment opportunities or restrictions of persons with physical or mental health problems and disability. This field of interdisciplinary research has grown with a broad range of solid new findings that can have favorable impact on work disability prevention and the practice of medical and vocational rehabilitation. Prominent experts discuss this evidence for major manifestations of physical and mental health problems and disabilities.

As a further innovative feature, this handbook integrates biomedical, psychological, and sociological knowledge on major aspects of the links between work, health and disability. It is therefore of interest to students and professionals in related disciplines, as well as for stakeholders involved in the prevention of, and rehabilitation into paid work. In times of an increasingly aging work force with elevated risks of reduced health and work functioning, this knowledge can contribute to turning the threats associated with disability into opportunities. This handbook supports the overall aim of enabling persons with (chronic) health problems and disability to fully participate in social life.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen Department of Health Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Ute Bültmann

  • Medizinische Fakultät, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldo Medizinische Fakultät, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Johannes Siegrist

About the editors

Ute Bültmann is an internationally active researcher on working conditions and health, with a special focus on mental health, work functioning and the prevention of work disability. Trained in health sciences and epidemiology she has accumulated rich scientific expertise in this field, having worked for several years in the Danish National Research Centre for the Work Environment before her appointment to Full Professor of Work and Health from a life-course perspective at the University of Groningen. 

Johannes Siegrist is a medical sociologist with a long-standing research career in occupational health sciences, in particular the role of psychosocial stress at work for health and disease. A former Professor at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, he has been granted a Senior Professorship by this University. Additionally, through his collaboration with the Swiss Paraplegic Foundation, he is currently involved in research on return to work among persons withdisability.

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