Background The broad aim of this study was to assess the contribution of job strain to mental
health inequalities by (a) estimating the proportion of depression attributable to job strain …

Occupational health services have traditionally focused on the effects of hazardous work
conditions on work-related illnesses and diseases, sickness absence, and disability. Many …

Background Work‐related mortality is a relatively new concept which aims to widen
occupational health and safety; to take into account not only recognized fatal occupational …

Background The Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) project of the World Health
Organization (WHO) assessed worldwide mortality and morbidity in the year 2000 resulting …

Background Evidence is growing that an adverse psychosocial work environment increases
sickness absence, but little is known on the magnitude of this problem or the impact of …

Recording occupational accidents and occupational diseases is one of the central demands
for good occupational health and safety. Western industrial countries have already for a long …

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The chapter will begin with a brief presentation of who the RTW stakeholders are, with
reference to why they are conceptualized as stakeholders. We will then move to a …

Objective To estimate the life expectancy (LE), quality‐adjusted life expectancy (QALE), and
their losses, in patients with pneumoconiosis in Mongolia. Methods and Materials All …

More than 2.9 billion adult and child workers throughout the world are exposed to
mechanical, chemical, biological, physical, and psychosocial hazards. 1 According to …