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Practical ethics in occupational health / edited by Peter Westerholm, Tore Nilstun and John Øvretveit

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018Description: 348 pages : 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781857756173
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • R724 PRA
Contents:
Changing life at work. Ethics, research-informed practice and quality improvement. Ethical analysis. The ethics of risk assessment. The ethics of workplace interventions. Workplace health surveillance. Health examinations on new employment ethical issues. Work-disability assessment in the Netherlands. Sickness-absence management. Reducing sick-leave: swimming upstream positioning and multiple loyalities. A case of workplace drug and alcohol testing in a UK transport company. Alcohol abuse in the workplace some ethical considerations. Blood-borne viruses as workplace hazards. Workplace rehabilitation. Insurance medicine and work-related diseases some ethical and legal aspects. Recognition of work-related diseases. Workplace genetic screening. Occupational health research. The ethics of health and safety services a trade-union perspective. Employer attitudes to ethics in occuptional health Whistleblowing. Education in ethics. Ethical occupational health management and organization. Professional codes of ethics. Concluding remarks
Summary: Explains the NHS as a political environment, and concentrates on understanding the relationships of power rather than on the role of apparent authority. The book presents a range of management frameworks and personal examples to illustrate what a primary-care-led NHS means
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Core Collection Main Library Core Collection R724 PRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 163086 Available BK150966

Includes index

Changing life at work. Ethics, research-informed practice and quality improvement. Ethical analysis. The ethics of risk assessment. The ethics of workplace interventions. Workplace health surveillance. Health examinations on new employment ethical issues. Work-disability assessment in the Netherlands. Sickness-absence management. Reducing sick-leave: swimming upstream positioning and multiple loyalities. A case of workplace drug and alcohol testing in a UK transport company. Alcohol abuse in the workplace some ethical considerations. Blood-borne viruses as workplace hazards. Workplace rehabilitation. Insurance medicine and work-related diseases some ethical and legal aspects. Recognition of work-related diseases. Workplace genetic screening. Occupational health research. The ethics of health and safety services a trade-union perspective. Employer attitudes to ethics in occuptional health Whistleblowing. Education in ethics. Ethical occupational health management and organization. Professional codes of ethics. Concluding remarks

Explains the NHS as a political environment, and concentrates on understanding the relationships of power rather than on the role of apparent authority. The book presents a range of management frameworks and personal examples to illustrate what a primary-care-led NHS means

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