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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgment | |
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| Focus on workplace health | |
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| Background to workplace health development | |
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| The USA and UK position | |
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| Introduction to workplace health promotion | |
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| Current initiatives | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| References | |
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| Useful addresses Stress | |
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| Defining stress | |
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| Bodily reaction to stress | |
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| Problems associated with stress at work | |
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| Causes of stress | |
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| Managing organisational stress | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| References | |
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| Useful addresses | |
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| Backpain and back injuries | |
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| Back problems at work | |
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| Patterns of occurrence and recurrence | |
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| Potential causes of backpain | |
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| Back problems amongst nursing personnel, truck delivery van drivers | |
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| Managing back problems at work | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| References | |
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| Useful addresses | |
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| Substance abuse at work: alcohol and smoking | |
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| Defining the problem | |
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| General effects on the individual | |
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| Changing roles of men and women in society | |
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| Work performance and accidents | |
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| Some lessons from the USA | |
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| The legal position | |
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| Prevention: what role can managers play? Examples of good practice | |
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| Passive smoking and its effects on the individual at work | |
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| The case for a smoking policy | |
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| Physical effects of smoking | |
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| Benefits of smoking cessation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| References | |
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| Useful addresses Cancer | |
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| Preamble to workplace exposure to carcinogenic substances | |
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| Defining cancer | |
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| The role of IARC | |
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| Occupational cancer | |
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| Selected substances and their association with occupational cancer: asbestos; man made mineral fibres; rubber | |
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| The paper board industry and renal cancer | |
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| Vinyl chloride and polyvinyl chloride | |
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| Benzidine, beta naphylamine and silica dust | |
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| Developments in prevention | |
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| Problems associated with educational programmes | |
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| The role of charities in prevention | |
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| Examples of good practice | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| References | |
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| Useful addresses | |
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| HIV and AIDS | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Factors concerning occupational transmission | |
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| Concerns of the health care worker | |
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| The food industry | |
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| Employment, law and HIV | |
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| The testing debate | |
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| Policy and the workplace | |
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| Education and training | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| References | |
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| Useful addresses | |
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| Healthy eating and the promotion of physical activity | |
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| What is healthy eating? The importance of diet | |
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| Dietary counselling | |
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| Marketing healthy eating at work | |
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| The catering managers's role | |
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| Developments in healthy eating | |
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| Monitoring and evaluating healthy eating initiatives: role of the workplace co-ordinator | |
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| Promoting physical activity at work | |
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| Defining physical fitness | |
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| Physical health at work: a case study | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| References | |
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| Useful addresses | |
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| Repetitive strain injury | |
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| Defining RSI | |
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| Predisposing factors to RSI and links with the workplace | |
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| Visual display operators | |
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| The meat packaging industry | |
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| Prevention and the workplace | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| Managing health at work | |
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| Identifying the problems and issues | |
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| Developing role of the workplace co-ordinator | |
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| Combatting problems: workplace action plan | |
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| Monitoring developments | |
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| Current legislation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |