Sustaining a healthy and productive work environment for employees with
health issues and work disabilities or those returning to work after
sick leave may present a challenge to employers. This publication offers
unique insights into occupational health and rehabilitation, covering
international perspectives as well as a variety of health-related
disciplines. Policymakers, employers, employees, researchers and
students will find new approaches to questions of how to maintain work
ability and health in the workplace: Which motives influence strategic
planning in the healthcare and employment sector? How can the return of
employees after sick leave be facilitated? How best to implement
innovations while keeping the workplace safe and healthy? And how does
occupational rehabilitation benefit from evidence-based knowledge
transfer?
Contents- Work Ability and Work Disability- Return to Work- Work and
Health- Work and Innovation
The EditorsThomas Johansen is a doctor of psychology and a senior
researcher at the Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Occupational
Rehabilitation, Rauland, Norway. He conducts research on cognitive
psychology and occupational rehabilitation focusing on cognitive and
emotional functioning, work ability, return to work self-efficacy and
return to work measures. Winand H. Dittrich is a professor of
international management, especially behavioral economics, at FOM
University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as well as
director of the FOM Competence Center for Interdisciplinary Research and
Behavioral Economics (KCI). He is Associate Editor of the journal
Disability, Rehabilitation, and Inclusion (specialty section of
Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences).
