Fitness for Work - The Medical Aspects

Zusatztext In my view the book is essential for all who practice occupational health! not just occupational physicians who are its main intended audience. I think it would also! in parts or as a whole! be of value to human resources! the legal profession and health and safety practitioners who would gain from the chapters on sickness absence prevention and management! ethics and health screening. It is keenly priced and should be on everyones bookshelf. Informationen zum Autor 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 occupati Klappentext The fifth edition of this established book provides comprehensive and practical guidance on the effects of medical conditions on employment and working capability. Every significant medical problem is covered! including sickness absence! health promotion! and fitness for work and cancer. Legal and ethical aspects are also addressed. Highly commended in the Primary Health Care category, BMA Book Awards 2013 Zusammenfassung The fifth edition of this established book provides comprehensive and practical guidance on the effects of medical conditions on employment and working capability. Every significant medical problem is covered! including sickness absence! health promotion! and fitness for work and cancer. Legal and ethical aspects are also addressed. 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 Ev...

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• Authors: Ian Brown, John Hobson, Keith T. Palmer, Keith T. Brown Palmer
• Assisted by: Ian Brown (Editor), John Hobson (Editor), Keith T Palmer (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.01.2013
• EAN: 9780199643240
• ISBN: 978-0-19-964324-0
• No. of pages: 736
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine