The new edition of Occupational Health Services provides an essential guide in setting up, running, and improving healthcare services either in an organization or within the community. The book offers an invaluable toolkit for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and occupational management of work-related health issues.
The text covers:
An overview of occupational health care in the United States and Canada - how it is organized, who pays for what, how it is regulated, and how workers' compensation works. It explains how occupational health services are managed in practice, whether within a company, as a global network, in a hospital or medical group practice, as a free-standing clinic, or following other models.
The management of core services, including record-keeping, marketing, service delivery options, staff recruitment and evaluation, and program evaluation. It provides details on specific services such as clinical service delivery for injured workers, periodic health surveillance, impairment assessment, fitness for duty, alcohol and drug testing, employee assistance, mental health, health promotion, emergency management, global health management, and medicolegal services.
Thoroughly updated throughout and including a new chapter on Consulting, this unique book will be a key reference work for managers and health practitioners from a range of backgrounds, including but not limited to medicine, nursing, health services administration, and physical therapy, as well as students training in these fields.
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Postgraduate and Professional
Illustrationen
7 s/w Zeichnungen, 43 s/w Tabellen, 11 s/w Abbildungen, 4 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
43 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
Maße
Höhe: 250 mm
Breite: 175 mm
Dicke: 31 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-041-07280-5 (9781041072805)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Tee L. Guidotti is a well-known figure in occupational and environmental medicine, editor of the previous editions, and author of a major textbook and several other works in the field.
Paula Lantsberger is an experienced clinician, medical director, and OEM practitioner who recently retired from managing an OEM group practice in Spokane Washington. She has extensive practical experience, a large network of colleagues and contacts, detailed knowledge of practice management, and writes in an engaging style.
M. Suzanne Arnold is a consultant in occupational health and occupational health nursing, with an emphasis on mental health in the workplace. She is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is retired as a professor in Occupational Health Program, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was an editor of the second edition.
Herausgeber*in
McGill University, Canada
Preface. 1.The Occupational Health Care System. 2.Workers' Compensation. 3.Occupational Health Law. 4.Occupational Safety and Health Regulation. 5.Ethics. 6.Corporate and In-House Occupational Health Services. 7.Global Occupational Health. 8.Strategic Planning. 9.Hospitals and Medical Centers. 10.Staffing and Personnel. 11.Facilities and Equipment. 12.Office Procedures and Protocols. 13.Medical Records. 14.Occupational Health-Specific Marketing and Sales. 15.Quality Assurance. 16.Primary-Care Occupational Medicine Services. 17.Periodic Health Surveillance and Monitoring. 18.Hazard Evaluation and Management. 19.Psychological Health and Safety. 20.Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing. 21.Employee Assistance Programs. 22.Absence and Leave. 23.Fitness for Duty. 24.Impairment Assessment. 25.Independent Medical Evaluation. 26.Consulting Services. 27.Medicolegal Services. 28.Lifestyle Medicine and Health Promotion. Appendix 1.Occupational Health and Safety Audit* Toolbox (inclusive of Self-Assessment and Gap Analysis reviews). Appendix 2.Essential Bookshelf in Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Occupational Health Services
