Tee Guidotti, M. Suzanne Arnold, David G. Lukcso, Judith Green-McKenzie, Joel Bender, Mark A. Rothstein, Frank H. Leone, Karen O'Hara, and Marion Stecklow
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.
Occupational Health Services includes a description of the way occupational health services are managed in practice, whether within a company, as a gobal network, in a hospital or medical group practice, as a free-standing clinic, or other model. Management of core services is covered, including record-keeping, marketing, service delivery options, staff recruitment and evaluation, and program evaluation. Specific services are covered including clinical service delivery for injured workers, periodic health surveillance, impairment assessment, fitness for duty, alcohol and drug testing, employee assistance mental health, health promotion, emergency management, global health management, and medicolegal services.
Table of Contents
- The Occupational Health Care System
- Workers' Compensation
- Occupational Health Law
- Occupational Safety and Health Regulation
- Ethics
- Corporate and In-House Occupational Health Services
- Global Occupational Health
- Strategic Planning
- Hospitals and Medical Groups
- Staffing and Personnel
- Facilities and Equipment
- Office Procedures
- Records
- Professional Preparation and Training
- Marketing
- Services and Service Lines
- Quality and Performance Indicators
- Benefit and Cost Analysis
- Primary Care-Level Clinical Services
- Periodic Health Surveillance and Monitoring
- Hazard Evaluation and Management
- Fitness for Duty
- Equal Access
- Absence and Leave
- Independent Medical Evaluation
- Impairment Assessment
- Drug and Alcohol Testing
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Psychological Health and Safety
- Health Promotion
- Emergency Management at the Enterprise Level
- Medicolegal Services
Appendix 1: An Occupational Health Audit Appendix 2: A Reference Bookshelf for an Occupational Health Service Index
