Document ID (ISN) | 30527 |
CIS number |
79-273 |
Year |
1978 |
Convention or series no. |
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Title |
Proceedings - Reducing occupational stress. |
Bibliographic information |
DHEW (NIOSH) Publication No.78-140, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA, Apr. 1978. Illus. 222p. 165 ref. |
Abstract |
American, British and Scandinavian methods of dealing with health and stress were discussed in 24 papers presented at a conference supported by NIOSH (New York, USA, 10-12 May 1977). Subjects covered: social support; computerisation and psychosocial factors; management stressors; incidence of disease/risk; stress factors of white-collar workers; blue-collar stressors; workload and myocardial infarction; industrial physicians and nurses; psychiatric consultation; special therapy (hypnosis for attenuation of burn depth); the organisation's system for coping with stress; organisation structure and mid-career stress; organisational management; legislative programmes; Swedish programmes; legislative job reform in Norway; Swedish approaches to job reform; productivity of the chronic schizophrenic; mental health programmes; new government programmes; alcohol abuse; psychosocial stress. |
Descriptors (primary) |
neuropsychic stress; mental stress; stress factors |
Descriptors (secondary) |
older workers; industrial nurses; Sweden; Norway; USA; alcoholism; part-time employment; psychology and sociology; mental health; conditions of work; office work; data processing; heart diseases; stress studies; biological effects; legislation; conference; social aspects; role of management; industrial physicians; responsibilities of employers |
Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
Subject(s) |
Occupational physiology
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Broad subject area(s) |
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Browse category(ies) |
Mental stress and burnout Precarious employment Older workers Alcohol and drug abuse
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