Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction - A Life Course Perspective on Work and Mental Health: The Working Lives of Young Adults - Biomechanical hazards at work and adverse health using Job-Exposure Matrices - Challenges of Large Cohort and Massive Data in Occupational Health - Chemical hazards at work and occupational diseases using Job Exposure Matrices - Gig work and health - Integration of occupational exposure into exposome - Job exposure matrices: Design, validation and limitations - Labour and social policies - Two pathways between occupation and health - Long working hours and health effects - Methods in modeling life course - Pathways to Retirement and Health Effects - Precarious Work and Health - Psychosocial work environment and health: applying Job- exposure matrices - Falling sick while working: an overview of the EU-level policy framework on returning to work following chronic disease(s) - Sequence Analysis and some of its uses to study occupational health - Shift work, night shift and health effects - Transformation of modern work and the rise of employment - Work and non work trajectories - Worksite health-promotion: evidence on effects and challenges - Working careers with common mental disorders - Working careers with physical disability - Adverse Effect of Psychosocial Stressors at Work and Long Working Hours Along the Cardiovascular Continuum - Impact of new technologies on work and employment - Genetics, epigenetics and health at work - Adverse employment histories: concept, measurement and health effects - Occupational trajectories and health inequalities in a global perspective - Conceptual and methodological directions of occupational life course research, included after pandemic changes - Occupational differences in work related mental health: a lifecourse +A2:A31analysis of recent trends in the European context
