Terrence Sullivan is the President of the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto.

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Part 1: Introduction

1 Restating Disability or Disabling the State: Four Challenges / Terrence Sullivan and John Frank

Part 2: The Industrial-Epidemiological Shift

2 From Chainsaws to Keyboards: Injury and Industrial Disease in British Columbia / Aleck Ostry

3 Workforce and Workplace Change: Implications for Injuries and Compensation / Morley Gunderson and Douglas Hyatt

4 Women, Work, and Injury / Jinjoo Chung, Donald Cole and Judy Clarke

Part 3: Prevention

5 The Importance of Psychosocial Risk Factors in Injury / Michael Kerr

6 Ergonomic Interventions for Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders / Robert Norman and Richard Wells

7 Firm-Level Organizational Practices and Work Injury / Harry Shannon

8 Joint Health and Safety Committees: Finding a Balance / John O'Grady

Part 4: Rehabilitation and Return to Work

9 Staging Treatment Interventions following Soft Tissue Injuries / Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Donald Cole, Pierre Côté, and John Frank

10 The Natural History and Effective Treatment of Chronic Pain from Musculoskeletal Injury / Eldon Tunks, Joan Crook and Mikaela Crook

11 Effective Disability Management and Return-to-Work Practices / Ann-Sylvia Brooker, Judy Clarke, Sandra Sinclair, Victoria Pennick and Sheilah Hogg-Johnson

Part 5: Entitlement, Fairness and Sustainability

12 Determining Occupational Disorder: Can This Camel Carry More Straw? / John Frank and Andreas Maetzel

13 Fatality Benefits: Rationale and Practice / Terry Thomason

14 Psychiatric Disability and Workers' Compensation / William Gnam

Appendices

A Categories of Injury and Disease

B Gender Differences in Work Exposure and Injury

C Bradford Hill's Criteria for Assessing Evidence of Causation

D Fatality Benefit Comparisons

Contributors

Index

Terrence Sullivan is the President of the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto.