Promoting Health for Working Women

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Linos, Athena (Editor), Kirch, Wilhelm (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Health promotion.; Health psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Public Health.; Health Psychology.

Based on European health initiatives on reducing workplace risks and promoting workplace health, Promoting Health for Working Women focuses on issues that predominantly or exclusively affect women, or have gender-specific implications because of differences or special circumstances that exist at the...

Table of Contents:

• General Principles and Concepts
• to Health Promotion for Working Women: A Methodology
• The Legal Context for Workplace Safety and Health Promotion: Thinking of Women
• Specific Health Topics
• Workplace Health Promotion Interventions ConcerningWomenWorkers' Occupational Hazards
• Mental Health Disorders and Work-life Balance
• Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Work-Related Violence, Bullying, and Sexual Harassment
• Promoting Health for Working Women—Communicable Diseases
• Screening at the Workplace and Female Employees
• Women’s Reproductive Health Issues
• Workplace Health Promotion Aiming at Safe Working Environments for Pregnant Women
• Workplace Health Promotion Aimed at Increasing Breastfeeding
• Lifestyle Determinants
• Promoting Tobacco Awareness and Smoking Cessation for Working Women
• Women, Health, and Alcohol-related Harm
• Promoting Physical Activity and a Healthy Diet among Working Women.