Bridging Occupational, Organizational and Public Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Bridging Occupational, Organizational and Public Health: A Transdisciplinary Approach

   • Georg F. Bauer, Oliver Hämmig

   Pages 1-11

3. Psychosocial Factors in Occupational and Organizational Health: A Key Public Health Issue

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Social Inequalities in Work and Health in a Globalized Economy

      • Johannes Siegrist

      Pages 15-28

   3. Towards Organizational Health: Stress, Positive Organizational Behavior, and Employee Well-Being

      • Susan Cartwright, Cary L. Cooper

      Pages 29-42

   4. A Critical Review of the Job Demands-Resources Model: Implications for Improving Work and Health

      • Wilmar B. Schaufeli, Toon W. Taris

      Pages 43-68

   5. The Role of Psychosocial Factors in Musculoskeletal Disorders

      • Brigitta Danuser

      Pages 69-90

   6. The Impact of Social Capital on the Health and Performance of Organizations

      • Bernhard Badura

      Pages 91-100

4. Improving Public and Organizational Health

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Capacity Building as a Key Mechanism of Organizational Health Development

      • Susanne Hoffmann, Gregor J. Jenny, Georg F. Bauer

      Pages 103-116

   3. Systemic Consulting for Organizational Health Development: Theory and Practice

      • Georg F. Bauer, Katharina Lehmann, Anita Blum-Rüegg, Gregor J. Jenny

      Pages 117-132

   4. Improving Organizational Health: The Case of Health Promoting Hospitals

      • Jürgen M. Pelikan, Hermann Schmied, Christina Dietscher

      Pages 133-153

   5. Integration of Work and Personal Life as a Key Factor for Individual, Organizational and Public Health

      • Oliver Hämmig

      Pages 155-175

5. Beyond Organizational Health: Social and Political Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Mental Health as a Complete State: How the Salutogenic Perspective Completes the Picture

      • Corey L. M. Keyes

      Pages 179-192

   3. Recovery from Work During Off-Job Time

      • Sabine A. E. Geurts

      Pages 193-208

   4. Beyond Paid Work: Voluntary Work and its Salutogenic Implications for Society

      • Patrick Jiranek, Rebecca Brauchli, Theo Wehner

      Pages 209-229

   5. Policy Approaches to Occupational and Organizational Health

      • Stavroula Leka, Aditya Jain

      Pages 231-249

In our complex, fast changing society, health is strongly influenced by the continuously changing interactions between organisations and their employees. Three major fields contribute to health-oriented improvements of these interactions: occupational health, organizational health and public health. As currently only partial links exist amongst these fields, the book aims to explore potential synergies more systematically. Considering the high mental and social demands in a service and knowledge sector economy, the first part of the book focuses on work-related psychosocial factors. As a large proportion of inequalities in health in developed countries can be explained by inequalities in working conditions, those psychosocial factors with a particularly high public health impact are highlighted. As addressing these psychosocial factors requires to involve the organization as the key change agent, the second part covers approaches to improve public health through organizational level health interventions. The last section takes a look into the future of occupational, organizational and public health: what are the future challenges regarding occupational health and how can they be tackled within and beyond the organizational level. Overall, this integrating book will help to broaden the evidence-base, legitimacy and efficacy of occupational- and organizational-level health interventions and thus increase their public health impact.

• Changing societies
• Health inequalities
• Mental and social demands
• Occupational health
• Organisations and employees
• Organizational health
• Public health
• Work-related psychosocial factors

From the reviews:

“The authors seek to integrate a differentiated base of knowledge in the three important areas of occupational, organizational, and public aspects of health. … The audience varies from academics in public health, engineering, and medicine to a broader audience. … The audience may include those who study and act upon improving society relative to work stretching along micro-, meso- and macro-scales. This would be my pick for university leaders willing to sponsor large scale debates and dialogue about society’s future in terms of work models.” (J. Thomas Pierce, Doody’s Book Reviews, February, 2014)

• ETH Zurich, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  Georg F. Bauer

• University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  Oliver Hämmig

After his medical studies, Georg Bauer, MD DrPH, has been public health researcher since 1990, in Europe as well as in the United States, where he received his Master and Doctor of Public Health at the School of Public Health in Berkley, California. His research areas include salutogenesis, community-based health promotion, health indicators, as well as occupational and organizational health with a focus on organizational health development (OHD). Currently he heads the Division Public and Organizational Health of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich and the Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, ETH Zurich.

The division is committed to a transdisciplinary research approach, combining researchers from diverse fields (Psychology, Sociology, Medicine, Economics) and partners from the field. To establish a sustainable research-practice link, a consulting center for OHD as well as a MAS Work + Health and a CAS in OHD are integral parts of the research division.

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