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Document ID (ISN)30527
CIS number 79-273
Year 1978
Convention or series no.
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
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Mental stress and burnout
Precarious employment
Older workers
Alcohol and drug abuse