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Handbook of Life Course Occupational Health

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  1. Morten Wahrendorf

    1. Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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  2. Tarani Chandola

    1. Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

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  3. Alexis Descatha

    1. Univ Angers, CHU Angers, Univ Rennes, Inserm, EHESP, Irset (Institut de recherche en santé, environnement et travail), UMR_S 1085, SFR ICAT, Ester Team, Angers, France

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  • Provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the field of life course occupational health
  • Includes in-depth analysis of links between early life, employment, quality of work and health
  • Focuses on new challenges of a transformed working life and its impact on health

Part of the book series: Handbook Series in Occupational Health Sciences (HDBSOHS)

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Table of contents (30 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Tarani Chandola, Morten Wahrendorf, Alexis Descatha
    Pages 1-13

  3. Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Two Pathways Between Occupation and Health

      • Melanie Bartley, David Blane
      Pages 17-26

    3. Transformation of Modern Work, Rise of Atypical Employment, and Health

      • Werner Eichhorst, Arne L. Kalleberg
      Pages 27-39

    4. The Impact of New Technologies on the Quality of Work

      • Karen Van Aerden, Christophe Vanroelen, Jessie Gevaert
      Pages 41-55

  4. Methodological Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Sequence Analysis and Its Potential for Occupational Health Studies

      • Matthias Studer, Nicola Cianferoni
      Pages 59-76

    3. Job-Exposure Matrices: Design, Validation, and Limitations

      • Alexis Descatha, Bradley A. Evanoff, Annette Leclerc
      Pages 77-94

    4. Challenges of Large Cohort and Massive Data in Occupational Health

      • Ingrid Sivesind Mehlum, Michelle C. Turner
      Pages 95-120

    5. Integration of Occupational Exposure into the Exposome

      • Jean-François Viel, Nathalie Bonvallot, William Dab
      Pages 121-136

    6. Methods in Modeling Life Course

      • Adrien Le Guillou, Pascal Wild
      Pages 137-154

  5. Early Life Impact on Work and Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Genetics, Epigenetics, and Mental Health at Work

      • Jelena Bakusic, Olivia Lavreysen, Lode Godderis
      Pages 157-174

    3. A Life Course Perspective on Work and Mental Health: The Working Lives of Young Adults

      • Karin Veldman, Sander K. R. van Zon, Iris Arends, Benjamin C. Amick III, Ute Bültmann
      Pages 175-192

  6. Occupational Trajectories and Midlife Health: Exposure to Chronic Hazards at Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. Chemical Hazards at Work and Occupational Diseases Using Job-Exposure Matrices

      • Irina Guseva Canu
      Pages 195-211

    3. Biomechanical Hazards at Work and Adverse Health Using Job-Exposure Matrices

      • Johan H. Andersen, Bradley A. Evanoff, Alexis Descatha
      Pages 213-225

    4. Long Working Hours and Health Effects

      • Marc Fadel, Jian Li, Grace Sembajwe
      Pages 227-243

    5. Health Effects of Shift Work and Night Shift Work

      • Pascal Guénel, Damien Léger
      Pages 245-266
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About this book

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in research on the relationship between occupational trajectories over the life course and health. It uncovers the impact of far-reaching changes of work and employment, as evidenced by increased flexibility, discontinuity, and technological innovation, and offers insights into recent theoretical and methodological developments addressing this challenge. In its main parts, it presents the best evidence to readers about the following topics: early life influences on (un)healthy work, chronic exposure to occupational risks; nonstandard employment and poor health; work continuation with chronic disease; occupational determinants of healthy aging. In its final part, it discusses policy implications of current knowledge and points to the need of developing new solutions in research and practice, not least in times of climate crisis and the new pandemic.

The important handbook has been prepared by a distinguished editorial team, with chapters written by prominent international experts. Despite its continuous reference to scientific knowledge it addresses its content to a broader, non-specialized readership.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Morten Wahrendorf

  • Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Tarani Chandola

  • Univ Angers, CHU Angers, Univ Rennes, Inserm, EHESP, Irset (Institut de recherche en santé, environnement et travail), UMR_S 1085, SFR ICAT, Ester Team, Angers, France

    Alexis Descatha

About the editors

Morten Wahrendorf works at the Institute for Medical Sociology of the University Düsseldorf, Germany, where he leads the working group on “Work & Health”. He has previously worked at the International Centre For Life-course Studies in Society and Health (ICLS) at University College London. His main research areas are work stress, health inequalities, life course epidemiology, ageing, and the comparative analyses of longitudinal cohort studies. He leads several projects that investigates both individual and national predictors of working conditions across the life course and their long-term effects on health at older ages. His research expertise spans different disciplines-including public health, epidemiology, statistics and sociology.

Tarani Chandola is a Professor of Medical Sociology. He is the head of the department of Sociology and the director of the Methods Hub in the Faculty of theSocial Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. He joined the University of Hong Kong in August 2021 and was formerly the head of department of Social Statistics at the University of Manchester. His research is primarily on the social determinants of health, focusing on health inequalities and psychosocial factors, social-biological research and the analysis of longitudinal cohort studies.

Alexis Descatha is a Professor in Occupational Health in Paris then in Angers (Western of France),  at University of Angers/ Inserm Irster/Ester, and lead the Clinical Toxicological Unit - Poison Control Center, in university hospital of Angers. His research focuses on the epidemiology of work disorders, musculoskeletal and other chronic diseases. He has interest on exposure assessment using a job exposure matrix and on performing systematic reviews. As emergency physician, he also conducts research on emergencies in occupational settings and created the ICOH’s scientific committee on Emergency Preparedness and Response, and involved in ICOH as board member in 2022-24. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Les Archives des Maladies Professionnelles et de l’Environnement. Recently, he was appointed Clinical Professor of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention at Hofstra School of Medicine, USA. In 2021, he received the Légion d’Honneur. To promote transfer research to practitioners in occupational health in a Translational Epidemiology Center on Occupational health, Toxicology, and Preparedness, he is presenting a  YouTube channel (with University of Angers support). He is working also in promoting research in occupational health for different national and international agencies. 


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