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The book explains what actions are needed to maintain work ability with people of advanced age, with chronic health issues and with disabilities, both at the corporate level as well as at the individual level. It shows through shaping the working environment and promoting and a healthy lifestyle can have a positive effect on work performance.
Sommario
PART I General Issues
Chapter 1 Work Ability Assessment: An Important Element of Workers
Health Protection...................................................................................
Joanna Bugajska and Teresa Makowiec-Dąbrowska
Chapter 2 Work Ability Index as a Tool of Assessment of the Possibilities
to Perform Work....................................................................................
Teresa Makowiec-Dąbrowska and Joanna Bugajska
Chapter 3 Dynamics of Changes in Work Ability According to the Type of
Work, Age and Gender of Employees – Results of Research.............
Joanna Bugajska, Łukasz Baka, and Łukasz Kapica
Chapter 4 Work Ability Index and Its Relationships to Factors
Characterizing Work, Non-professional Loads and Individual
Factors – Results of Research.............................................................
Teresa Makowiec-Dąbrowska
PART II Work Ability and Age
Chapter 5 Age-Related Physiological Changes Influencing Work Ability..........
Tomasz Kostka and Joanna Kostka
Chapter 6 Activities for Supporting Work Ability of Ageing Workers..............
Joanna Kostka and Tomasz Kostka
Chapter 7 Physical and Psychosocial Work Demand Changes with Age..........
Joanna Bugajska and Teresa Makowiec-Dąbrowska
Chapter 8 Work Ability in Older Women Working in Retail Sector –
Results of Research...........................................................................
Elżbieta Łastowiecka-Moras
Chapter 9 Work Ability among Male Workers in Different Ages – Results
of Research........................................................................................
Marzena Malińska
PART III Work Ability and Chronic Diseases
Chapter 10 Work Ability and Its Relationship to Sense of Coherence among
Workers with Chronic Diseases – Results of Research....................
Joanna Bugajska and Maria Widerszal-Bazyl
Chapter 11 Adjustment of Work Organization and Working Conditions
to the Needs of Persons with Chronic Diseases – Results
of Research......................................................................................
Karolina Pawłowska-Cyprysiak, Katarzyna Hildt-Ciupińska,
and Joanna Bugajska
Chapter 12 Work Ability in Workers with Mental Diseases...............................
Halina Sienkiewicz-Jarosz
Chapter 13 Activities Supporting Work Ability in Workers with
Chronic Diseases...............................................................................
Joanna Bugajska
PART IV Work Ability and Disabilities
Chapter 14 Model of Work Ability Assessment Using ICF.................................
Joanna Bugajska, Andrzej Najmiec, and Karol Pawlak
Chapter 15 Conditions Impacting on Work Ability in People with Motor
Disabilities – Results of Research.....................................................
Karolina Pawłowska-Cyprysiak
Index.......................................................................................................................
Info autore
Joanna Bugajska, PhD, D.Med.Sc. is the Manager of the Department of Ergonomics at the Central Institute for Labour Protection – National Research Institute in Warsaw. Her scientific, publication and area of expertise includes; assessment of workload and the health effects of excessive loads; type of work, the method of its performance and the occurrence of musculoskeletal overload disorders; individual and professional factors shaping work ability; principles of shaping work requirements to the psychophysical capabilities of the worker; impact of lifestyle, including physical professional and non-professional activity with disabilities. Joanna Bugajska is the author of 120 scientific publications including 92 publications indexed in international scientific databases and many speeches at scientific conferences nationally and abroad.
Teresa Makowiec-Dąbrowska, PhD, D.Med.Sc. is a long-term employee of the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Łódź. She has nearly 50 years of experience in the field of work physiology. Her scientific, publication and area of expertise includes: impact of the circadian rhythm on physiological functions and work ability; assessment of workload and the health effects of excessive loads; the impact of the methods of work performance on the locomotor systems; physiological capabilities related to the requirements of the profession – work ability assessment; principles of shaping loads for employees of changed capabilities; impact of lifestyle, including physical professional and non-professional activity on health, quality of life and work ability. Teresa Makowiec-Dąbrowska is the author of 200 scientific publications (including 92 publications indexed in international scientific databases) and many speeches at scientific conferences nationally and abroad.
Riassunto
The book explains what actions are needed to maintain work ability with people of advanced age, with chronic health issues and with disabilities, both at the corporate level as well as at the individual level. It shows through shaping the working environment and promoting and a healthy lifestyle can have a positive effect on work performance.
