| Description |
193 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Issues in occupational health |
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Issues in occupational health.
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| Contents |
Preface: promoting workplace health -- 1. Employee exercise programmes: organisational and individual perspectives / Amanda Griffiths -- 2. Financial aspects of employee fitness programmes / Roy J. Shephard -- 3. Assessing the relationship between exercise and employee mental health: methodological concerns / Steve M. Jex and Deanne A. Heinisch -- 4. Exercise and mental health: the role of activity and fitness / Kathryn Thirlaway and David Benton -- 5. The psychological benefits of physical exercise for women: improving employee quality of life / Precilla Y. L. Choi and Nanette Mutrie -- 6. Exercise programmes and the promotion of health / Larry L. Fahlberg and Lauri A. Fahlberg -- 7. Understanding exercise as a method of stress management: a constructivist framework / Karen R. Flood and Bonita C. Long -- 8. Exercise, shiftwork and sleep / Mikko Harma -- 9. Alcohol abuse, physical fitness and the prevention of relapse / Sven Svebak |
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10. Employee fitness programmes and reduced absenteeism: a case study / John H. Kerr -- 11. Employee fitness and exercise: the way forward / John H. Kerr |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Employee health promotion.
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Industrial hygiene.
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Industrial safety.
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Exercise.
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Physical fitness.
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| Author |
Cox, Tom, 1947-
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Griffiths, Amanda.
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Kerr, John H., 1930-
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| LC no. |
97116582 |
| ISBN |
0748401423 |
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0748401431 (paperback) |
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