Objectives Economic, social, technical, and political drivers are fundamentally changing the nature of work and work environments, with profound implications for the field of occupational health. Nevertheless, researchers and practitioners entering the field are largely being trained to assess and control exposures using approaches developed under old models of work and risks. Methods A speak...

BACKGROUND The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) is an occupational therapy instrument designed to help participants identify, prioritize, and evaluate performance of important occupations. OBJECTIVE To investigate the validity, responsiveness, interpretability, and feasibility of the COPM when used by various health professions in home-dwelling older adults receiving reablemen...

Kathy B. Simon, OTR, is a consultant specializing in vocational rehabilitation in northern California (Mailing ad dress: 434 Oakdale Avenue, Cone Madera, California 94925.) I n times of rapid change in the health care delivery system, occupational therapists are challenged to be inventive, creative, and knowledgeable of future trends. Currently, the profession is being pressured to prove its co...

This 12-month ethnographic study of an early entrant into the U.S. car-sharing industry demonstrates that when an organization shifts its focus from developing radical new technology to incrementally improving this technology, the shift may spark an internal power struggle between the dominant engineering group and a challenger occupational group such as the marketing group. Analyzing 42 projec...

Developing clarity of thought and written expression. We mest develop skills in putting information on paper that allow someone who is not an occupational therapist to understand why we are treating a patient. This is important because our services will continue to be reviewed by the system. It also helps us in the long run because it enables us to review our clinical decision making on whether...

The differences in employment distributions of women and men within occupations have been, and continue to be, a prominent feature of the labor market. Past research has indicated a high degree of difference that remained fairly constant from the early 1900s up until about 1970. The 1970s were a watershed period in occupational desegregation, as indicated by significant declines in measures of ...

After workers take long-term sickness absence due to mental disorders (LTSA-MD), the occupational stress of the coworkers in the same work unit might be affected. The aims of this study were to evaluate the effect of the incident of LTSA-MD on the coworkers' occupational stress. A retrospective cohort study of 16,032 public servants was conducted. The Brief Job Stress Questionnaire (BJSQ) was u...

In her Issue Is article entitled "Should Music Be Used Therapeutically in Occupational Therapy'" (AJOT, March 1992, pp. 275-277), Anne MacRae discussed issues that are not new. From 1984 until 1987, Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario, was fortunate to have a part-time music therapist as a member of its occupational therapy department. Music therapy was introduced with the client ...

knowledge management is a process of using a source of strategic knowledge in organizations in order to find key information and organize and transfer it. many organizations adopted knowledge management systems to maintain their stability and usefulness. since there is occupational similarity between informatics experts and librarians, librarians can change to knowledge managers by being inform...