Using the Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) information system, the author provides useful information on how to reduce accidents in the workplace.

The evaluation and assessment of appropriate design approaches for usable human-machine interfaces is at the heart of ergonomics. A Guide to Methodology in Ergonomics arises from work, carried out by Neville Stanton for the EPSRC/Department of
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Occupational Health: A Practical Guide for Managers examines the reasons why employers should address the health of their workforce. It explores the implication that health issues have for bottom line performance and offers guidelines for developing
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Migrants, Minorities and Health explores the relations between medicine and minorities in the twentieth century. The contributors present both historical and contemporary studies of migrant and minority groups from societies around
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Gives a comprehensive view of youthful involvement with drinking, smoking, illicit drug use and sexual activity, providing a challenging assessment of health education for young people.

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Providing a critical review of the current state of health promotion research. This book re-conceptualises the field of health promotion as collaborative and integrating enterprise, rather than as a battlefield for disciplinary and intellectual clashes.
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While practices and policies of exclusion have always characterized health care systems and the professional groups who work with them, wide global structural changes have increased the focus on exclusion as a key theme in health care. Bringing together
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The essays in this collection originate from the highly successful research symposium organized by the Society for the Social History of Medicine at the University of Southampton in 1998. They are concerned with the interaction between different medical
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This volume brings together cutting edge research by historians from Britain, Germany, France, the US, Japan and New Zealand. Innovative in its approach to innovation, it focuses on diffusion and resistance, and organization as well as technology.
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This timely book explores cultural responses to infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the last two centuries. These essays, covering the fields of cultural studies, biomedical history, and critical sociology, examine the geographies,
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