Practice of Occupational Medicine
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Occupational Emergency Medicine
Written to address the large portion of emergency admissions that occur due to occupational health problems and as an interface between the specialties of emergency medicine and occupational medicine. Offers a concise reference with comprehensive information on legal issues involving the physician as well as advice on managing occupational health hospital admissions. Includes chapters on a variety of work-related injuries and complaints (click on the book title to view complete list of chapters and contributors).
Publication Date 2011 Format Softcover, 280 pages Product Code 28094 -
The Workplace Walk-Through
Published in 1992 as the first volume in Kornberg's Operational Guideline Series in Occupational Medicine, THE WORKPLACE WALK-THROUGH provides operational guidelines and technical recommendations to assist physicians in the performance of a workplace walk-through along with the necessary occupational and environmental health analyses of plants and work areas. The book focuses on four critical areas of practice:
- How to perform a workplace walk-through
- How to organize occupational health and industrial hygiene information into an integrated and cohesive framework from which medical surveillance recommendations may be based
- How to perform an occupational medicine causality determination
- How to understand and utilize selected environmental engineering and industrial hygiene concepts and methods
Publication Date 1992 Format Hardcover, 165 pages Product Code 09023 -
Effective Management of Health and Safety Programs, Third Edition
Here are the practical tools and guidance today's health and safety professional needs to effectively design, develop, manage, and evaluate health and safety programs.
This popular, practical guide for health and safety program managers has been revised in response to the recommendations of readers and faculty at graduate education institutions. The title has changed because users noted that the book's usefulness extends beyond environmental and occupational health and safety, offering information not usually emphasized in general health and safety training. Readers in all types of health and safety programs will find the current edition indispensable in enhancing their communication skills, time management capabilities, and abilities to gain support from decision makers and other senior managers in their organization. The material can be applied immediately to the reader's own job situation, a focus that has made the book uniquely valuable.Publication Date 2008 Format Softcover
480 pagesISBN 978-1-883595-50-0 Product Code 23097 -
Color Vision in the Occupational Setting, Analysis and Testing
Published in 2008, this book provides a current manual on the field of color vision for occupational and environmental medicine. Current color vision tests are reviewed to assist with screening and ultimate diagnostic evaluation of employees. Includes over 24 color photos and illustrations.
Publication Date 2008 Format Softcover, 85 pages Product Code 23111 -
Improving Workers Compensation Medical Care: A National Challenge
For the first time in one resource here are the most recent findings and sucessful approaches to Workers' Compensation medical care.
Product Code 23083 -
Communicating Risk in a Changing World
State-of-the-art papers and reports on the discussions and conclusions of a symposium sponsored by the member agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Environmental Health Policy Committees Subcommittee on Risk Communication and Education, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP). Participants included a broad cross-section of more than 25 researchers and practitioners from government, academia, management, labor, and the environmental movement who are actively involved in science-based public communications.
Publication Date 1998 Format Softcover, 197 pages ISBN 978-1-883595-20-7 Product Code 23046 -
Occupational Health Services: A Practical Approach, Second Edition
Fully, updated and revised, the second edition of OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES is designed for professionals who deliver, manage, and hold oversight responsibility for occupational health in an organization or in the community. Provides the busy practitioner and clinic manager guidance in setting up, running, and improving health care services for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and occupational management of work-related health issues. The text gives an overview of occupational health care in the US and Canada with information about how it is organized, who pays for what, how it is regulated, and how workers' compensation works.
Publication Date 2012 Format Softcover, 452 pages Product Code 31030 -
Hearing Conservation Manual, Fifth Edition 2015
The recently published fifth edition of CAOHC's Hearing Conservation Manual is the most complete and current information on occupational hearing conservation.
New to the Fifth Edition: •Full color text
•Four additional chapters
•Comprehensive glossary of terms
•Five additional appendix documents
Publication Date 2015 Format Softcover, 422 pages Product Code 99004 -
Asthma in the Workplace, Fourth Edition
The frequency of asthma in the workplace and occupational asthma is one of the most prevalent occupational lung diseases. Featuring an international group of contributors and editors, the fourth edition focuses on the clinical aspects of management and treatment to provide a comprehensive, hands-on resource.
Publication Date 2013 Format Hardcover, 440 pages with index Product Code 31032 -
Ernsting's Aviation and Space Medicine, Fifth Edition
An essential companion for all civil and military aviation medicine practitioners, both when preparing for professional examinations and in daily practice. The fifth edition features new chapters on space physiology and medicine, passenger safety, rotary wing operation by land and sea, and UAVs. eBook included: text fully online and searchable via VitalSource eBook - instructions provided within the print book.
Publication Date Due out January 2016 Format Hardcover, 914 pages Product Code 31033