Workers and their families, employers, and society as a whole
benefit when providers deliver the best quality of care to injured
workers and when they know how to provide effective services for
both prevention and fitness for duty and understand why, instead of
just following regulations. Designed for professionals who deliver,
manage, and hold oversight responsibility for occupational health
in an organization or in the community, Occupational Health
Services guides the busy practitioner and clinic manager in setting
up, running, and improving healthcare services for the prevention,
diagnosis, treatment, and occupational management of work-related
health issues. The text covers: an overview of occupational health
care in the US and Canada: how it is organized, who pays for what,
how it is regulated, and how workers' compensation works how
occupational health services are managed in practice, whether
within a company, as a global network, in a hospital or medical
group practice, as a free-standing clinic, or following other
models management of core services, including recordkeeping,
marketing, service delivery options, staff recruitment and
evaluation, and program evaluation depth and detail on specific
services, 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 medico-legal services. This highly focused and relevant
combined handbook and textbook is aimed at improving the provision
of care and health protection for workers and will be of use to
both managers and health practitioners from a range of backgrounds,
including but not limited to medicine, nursing, health services
administration, and physical therapy.
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