Fitness for Work

The Medical Aspects
Herausgeber: Hobson, John; Smedley, Julia

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Produktbeschreibung

Fitness For Work is the occupational physician's bible and an invaluable resource for all occupational health practitioners. It provides evidence based and authoritative advice and guidance to those faced with clinical problems in the occupational health clinic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 6 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 888
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1494g
• ISBN-13: 9780198808657
• ISBN-10: 0198808658
• Artikelnr.: 54471106

Autorenporträt

John Hobson is a practising consultant occupational physician. He is also managing director of Hobson Health Ltd. He has been the honorary editor of the journal Occupational Medicine for over fifteen years. He holds academic appointments in occupational medicine at Keele, Manchester and Birmingham universities. Julia Smedley is an occupational physician, leading a large multidisciplinary OH service in the NHS. She has an active interest in research and innovation, service development and quality improvement and has contributed to national guidelines and audits in the specialty. She is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Southampton.

Inhaltsangabe

* Section 1
* 1: John Hobson and Julia Smedley: A general framework for assessing
fitness for work
* 2: Gillian S. Howard: Legal aspects of fitness for work
* 3: Mark Landon and Tony Williams: The Equality Act
* 4: Steve Boorman and Diana Kloss: Ethics in occupational health
* 5: Steve Boorman: Health promotion in the workplace
* 6: David Koh and Tar-Ching Aw: Health screening in occupational
health
* 7: Steven Nimmo: The older worker
* 8: Blandina Blackburn and Patrick Bose: Women s Health and other
Gender issues at work
* 9: Richard Preece: Sickness absence
* 10: Danny Wong: Rehabilitation and return to work
* 11: Tony Williams and Neil Pearce: Fitness for work after surgery or
critical illness
* 12: Jon Poole and Glyn R. Evans: Ill health retirement
* 13: Caroline Swales and Peter McDowall: Medication and employment
* 14: David Brown and David Rhinds: Drugs and alcohol in the workplace
* 15: Tim Carter, Rae-Wen Chang, Andrew Colvin, Robbert Hermanns:
Transport
* 16: Tim Carter, Sally Bell, Mike Doig, Robbert Hermanns, Phil Bryson:
Seafaring, offshore energy and diving
* 17: Dipti Patel: International Travel
* 18: Ian Lawson and Roger Cooke: Health effects of vibration
* Section 2
* 19: Richard J.L. Heron and Neil Greenberg: Mental health and
psychiatric disorders
* 20: Syed Nasir and Karen Walker-Bone: Musculoskeletal conditions,
Part 1: Rheumatological disorders
* 21: Birender Balain, John Hobson: Musculoskeletal conditions, Part 2:
Spinal disorders
* 22: Sam Valanejad Julia Blackburn Karen Walker-Bone: Musculoskeletal
conditions, Part 3: disorders of upper and lower limbs
* 23: Ian Brown and Martin C. Prevett: Epilepsy
* 24: Jon Poole and Richard Hardie: Other Neurological disorders
* 25: Ali Hashtroudi and Mayank Patel: Diabetes mellitus and other
endocrine disorders
* 26: Joseph De Bono and Anli Yue Zhou: Cardiovascular Diseases
* 27: Paul Cullinan and Kaveh Asanati: Respiratory disorders
* 28: John English and Dr Hanaa Sayed: Dermatological disorders
* 29: Philip Wynn and Elizabeth Murphy: Cancer survivorship and work
* 30: John Pitts and Stuart J. Mitchell: Vision and eye disorders
* 31: Julian Eyears and Kristian Hutson: Hearing and vestibular
disorders
* 32: Marios Adamou and John Hobson: Hidden impairments
* 33: Ira Madan and Simon Hellier: Gastrointestinal and liver disorders
* 34: Paul Grime and Christopher Conlon: Blood borne viruses
* 35: Julia Smedley and Richard S. Kaczmarski: Haematological disorders
* 36: Christopher W. Ide and Edwina A. Brown: Renal and urological
disease