Practical Ethics in Occupational Health

List of contents

Changing life at work. Ethics, research-informed practice and quality improvement. Ethical analysis. The ethics of risk assessment. The ethics of workplace interventions. Workplace health surveillance. Health examinations on new employment - ethical issues. Work-disability assessment in the Netherlands. Sickness-absence management. Reducing sick-leave: swimming upstream - positioning and multiple loyalities. A case of workplace drug and alcohol testing in a UK transport company. Alcohol abuse in the workplace - some ethical considerations. Blood-borne viruses as workplace hazards. Workplace rehabilitation. Insurance medicine and work-related diseases - some ethical and legal aspects. Recognition of work-related diseases. Workplace genetic screening. Occupational health research. The ethics of health and safety services - a trade-union perspective. Employer attitudes to ethics in occuptional health
Whistleblowing. Education in ethics. Ethical occupational health management and organization.Professional codes of ethics. Concluding remarks.

About the author

Peter Westerholm (Author) , Tore Nilstun (Author) , John Ovretveit (Author)

Summary

Explains the NHS as a political environment, and concentrates on understanding the relationships of power rather than on the role of apparent authority

Product details

• Authors: Tore Nilstun, Nilstun Tore, John Ovretveit, John Øvretveit, Peter Westerholm, Peter Nilstun Westerholm, Westerholm Peter
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.1997
• EAN: 9781857756173
• ISBN: 978-1-85775-617-3
• No. of pages: 76
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Occupational & Industrial Medicine, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Occupational medicine