Health and Work

JOYCE CANAAN Course Director in MA/Dip Research Methodology, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Central England NICK FOX Senior lecturer in Sociology, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield CHRISTER HOGSTEDT Researcher, National Institute for Working Life AUSA A. LAURELL Professor of Social Medicine, Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico City LIZ LLOYD Lecturer in Community Care, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol RENE LOEWENSON Technical Coordinator, OATUU Health, Safety and Environment Programme, Harare, Zimbabwe KAREN MESSING Professor of Biology, University of Quebec, Canada THEO NICHOLS Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol SARAH PAYNE Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol SIMON PICKVANCE Director, Sheffield Occupational Health Project RUTH PINDER Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Health, Brunel University ANNETTE SCAMBLER Lecturer and Researcher, Open University and University College London Medical School GRAHAM SCAMBLER Reader in Sociology and Director, Unit of Medical Sociology, University College London Medical School ANDREW WATTERSON Director, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, De Montfort University TAMSIN WILTON Reader in Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences University of West of England

Occupational health issues have been identified as crucially important in the debate about socio-economic determinants of health and illness.Occupational health issues have been identified as crucially important in the debate about socio-economic determinants of health and illness. Yet few texts have addressed issues of work and health in any depth, while interest in the field continues to grow. Health and Work explores current debates about inequalities in health, focusing on the consequences of new patterns of employment for health, stress and the quality of working life. Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives in an international, global context, each chapter examines changing discourses of risk and health and identifies implications for policy and practice within the health care arena, as well as in relation to the management of the work environment.