Occupational Health Services

<p>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.</p><p>Designed for professionals who deliver, manage, and hold oversight responsibility for occupational health in an organization or in the community, <em>Occupational Health Services</em> 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:</p><ul> <ul> </ul> <li>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</li> <ul> </ul> <li>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 </li> <ul> </ul> <li>management of core services, including recordkeeping, marketing, service delivery options, staff recruitment and evaluation, and program evaluation </li> <ul> </ul> <li>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. </li> <ul> </ul> </ul><p>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.</p> <p>Preface The Occupational Health Care System <em>Tee L. Guidotti</em> 2. Workers’ Compensation <em>Judith Green-McKenzie </em>3. Occupational Health Law <em>Mark A. Rothstein </em> 4. Occupational Safety and Health Regulation <em>Judith Green-McKenzie </em>5. Ethics <em>Tee L. Guidotti </em>6. Corporate and In-House Occupational Health Services <em>Joel Bender</em> 7. Global Occupational Health <em>Joel Bender </em> 8. Strategic Planning <em>Tee L. Guidotti </em> 9. Hospitals and Medical Groups <em>Judith Green-McKenzie </em> 10. Staffing and Personnel <em>Donna Lee Gardner</em> 11. Facilities and Equipment <em>Donna Lee Gardner</em> 12. Office Procedures <em>Donna Lee Gardner and Karen O’Hara</em> 13. Records <em>Donna Lee Gardner</em> 14. Professional Preparation and Training <em>Suzanne Arnold and Tee L. Guidotti</em> 15. Marketing <em>Frank H. Leone</em> 16. Services and Service Lines <em>Tee L. Guidotti and Craig Karpilow </em>17. Quality and Performance Indicators <em>Tee L. Guidotti</em> 18. Benefit and Cost Analysis <em>Joel Bender and Ray Fabius </em> 19. Primary-care Level Clinical Services <em>David G. Lukcso</em> 20. Periodic Health Surveillance and Monitoring <em>Tee L. Guidotti</em> 21. Hazard Evaluation and Management <em>Tee L. Guidotti</em> 22. Fitness for Duty <em>David G. Lukcso</em> 23. Equal Access <em>David Lukcso and Suzanne Arnold</em> 24. Absence and Leave <em>Tee L. Guidotti</em> 25. Independent Medical Evaluation <em>David G. Lukcso</em> 26. Impairment Assessment <em>David G. Lukcso</em> 27. Drug and Alcohol Testing <em>David G. Lukcso</em> 28. Employee Assistance Programs <em>David G. Lukcso </em>29. Psychological Health and Safety <em>M. Suzanne Arnold and Ian M. F. Arnold</em> 30. Health Promotion <em>Joel Bender and Sami Bég</em> 31. Emergency Management at the Enterprise Level <em>Tee L. Guidotti</em> 32. Medicolegal Services <em>Tee L. Guidotti</em> Appendix 1. An Occupational Health Audit Appendix 2. A Reference Bookshelf for an Occupational Health Service</p>