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Preventing Occupational Disease And Injury
: :Each year in the United States, 5,000 to 6,000 workers die from acute traumatic occupational injuries. Similarly, the causes of, and methods to prevent many occupational diseases are well known. Work can be hazardous! However, more importantly, most hazards can be anticipated, and prevented. Occupational health is a field within public health devoted to the prevention of occupational disease and injury. This book, thoroughly updated from its first edition published in 1991, provides information to assist in anticipating the potential for disease or injury, recognizing occupational diseases and injuries, evaluating ...
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Shoe in Sport
: :Each year in the United States, 5,000 to 6,000 workers die from acute traumatic occupational injuries. Similarly, the causes of, and methods to prevent many occupational diseases are well known. Work can be hazardous! However, more importantly, most hazards can be anticipated, and prevented. Occupational health is a field within public health devoted to the prevention of occupational disease and injury. This book, thoroughly updated from its first edition published in 1991, provides information to assist in anticipating the potential for disease or injury, recognizing occupational diseases and injuries, evaluating ...
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Body Mechanics and Self-Care Manual
: :Oregon School of Massage. Stresses the importance of becoming an active player in accomplishing health and wellness. Helps the individual to prepare and renew for the work of massage therapy. Enhances the ability to sense in the moment when a body position of technique is not comfortable or effective, and provides alternative for unhealthy patterns. For therapists. Softcover.
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Health and Work: Critical Perspectives
from: Palgrave Macmillan
: :This book develops a new approach to thinking about work and health. Drawing on contributions from a range of disciplines, it redefines the traditional boundaries of occupational health and safety. On the one hand, the concept of work is broadened beyond formal employment to include different types of informal and unpaid labor. On the other, the notion of health itself is expanded to include not just physical disease and disability but more qualitative and experiential aspects of well-being. The impact of work on psychological health receives particular attention.
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Workplace Injuries And Diseases: Prevention And Compensation: Essays in Honor of Terry Thomason
from: W. E. Upjohn Institute
: :Each year, approximately one of every 20 full-time-equivalent workers in the United States gets injured while at work. This statistic highlights the need for an efficient yet adequate and equitable disability insurance (workers’ compensation) system to help those workers during their recoveries. Much has been learned about how to balance the priorities for this type of social insurance, but gaps in our knowledge remain. Editors Karen Roberts, John F. Burton Jr., and Matthew M. Bodah present a set of essays from a group of leading scholars that provides a detailed ...
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The Official Guide to Office Wellness
: :The Complete Guide to Office Wellness is a humorous spoof on exercise programs that is geared to the office or cubicle. 100 Models were photographed in an office or cubicle to demonstrate animal-inspired techniques designed to alleviate office maladies. Why animals? Because animals have wisdom.
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Injury Prevention: An International Perspective: Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Policy
: :Throughout the world, injuries are the leading cause of death for young adults, adolescents, and children. Injury death and hospitalization are also high among the elderly. With the improved prevention and treatment of infectious and degenerative diseases, the importance of injuries as a debilitating factor has rapidly increased around the world. Better living conditions have decreased the number of some types of injuries--such as drownings and burns--but the proliferation of new, high-energy vehicles, machinery, and weapons has offset this trend by significantly increasing the number of other types of injuries. ...
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Human Factors and Behavioural Safety
: :Accidents and cases of occupational ill-health are commonly associated with aspects of human behaviour and the potential for human error. Human Factors and Behavioural Safety is not written for psychologists, but instead gives health and safety professionals and students a broad overview of human factors and those aspects of human behaviour which have a direct effect on health and safety performance within organisations.Particular attention is paid to:* the role of the organisation in promoting safe behaviour* the sensory and perceptual processes of people* behavioural factors, such as attitude, motivation and ...
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Injury Prevention and Control for Children and Youth
: :Pennsylvania State Univ., Hershey. Practical manual for pediatricians containing information useful in the medical office. Also for speakers preparing talks or seminars. Includes: overview of the field, injury prevention at home, and specific injuries. Outline format. Softcover.
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Synergetics: Your Whole Life Fitness Plan
: :Synergetics: Your Whole Life Fitness Plan is the healing exercise program that combines tai chi, yoga and rhythmic resistance training into 12 minute workouts that can be done by all ages. These exercises are ideal for people with knee, hip and back injuries. Benefits include improved energy, flexibility and balance. They help with weight loss as well as pain and stress management.
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