Bulletin of the World Health Organization : 1973; Volume 48; Volume 48, Number 3, Year 1973 48 (3), Pages 309-316: Prospects of Chemosterilant and Genetic Control of Rodents

By Walter E. Howard

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Title:	Bulletin of the World Health Organization : 1973; Volume 48; Volume 48, Number 3, Year 1973 48 (3), Pages 309-316: Prospects of Chemosterilant and Genetic Control of Rodents
Author:	Walter E. Howard
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
A Working Group on Health Aspects of Wellbeing in Working Places was convened by the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization, in collaboration with the Government of Czechoslovakia, in Prague from 18 to 20 September 1979. The meeting was attended by 13 temporary advisers from 12 countries of the European Region, a representative of the International Labour Organisation and a staff member of the WHO Regional Office for Europe (see Annex).

Table of Contents
CONTENTS 1 . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 . Wellbeing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.2 General considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 . Changing patterns of work and organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . Work factors influencing wellbeing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4.1 Psychosocial factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.2 Physical, chemical and biological factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.3 Physiological and psychological aspects of work . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5 . Methods of evaluating wellbeing in working places and identifying its causes 9 5.1 Health impairment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.2 Wellbeing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5.3 Identification of causes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6 . Control of psychosocial and other factors affecting wellbeing . . . . . . . . . 12 6.1 Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6.2 Methods of control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6.3 Treating the organization, not the individual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 7 . The tasks of governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 7.1 Reformulation of goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 7.2 Application of existing knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 7.3 Acquisition of new knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 7.4 Improved methods of identifying and coping with problems . . . . . . 17 8 . Legislation and employ er-union contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 8.1 Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 8.2 Employer-union contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19