The new edition of Occupational Health Services provides an essential guide in setting up running and improving healthcare services either in an organization or within the community. The book offers an invaluable toolkit for the prevention diagnosis treatment and occupational management of work-related health issues. The text covers: An overview of occupational health care in the United States and Canada – how it is organized who pays for what how it is regulated and how workers’ compensation works. It explains 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. The management of core services including record-keeping marketing service delivery options staff recruitment and evaluation and program evaluation. It provides details on specific services such as 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. Thoroughly updated throughout and including a new chapter on Consulting this unique book will be a key reference work for managers and health practitioners from a range of backgrounds including but not limited to medicine nursing health services administration and physical therapy as well as students training in these fields. |Occupational Health Services A Practical Approach | Health & Social Care
