The translation of the framework directive 89/391/EEC (Council Directive 89/391/EEC) into national law aims at supplying occupational protection and health care to all employees of large, small, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) likewise, depending on assessed exposure. Prior incomplete protection of the German workforce with bias against the SMEs requires an assessment of quantitative and qu...

Background/Aim Internationally, mental health policy requires clinicians to shift from a medical to a recovery-oriented approach. However, there is a significant lag in the translation of policy into practice. Occupational therapists have been identified as ideally situated to be recovery-oriented yet limited research exploring how they do this exists. This study aimed to explore Australian occ...

Abstract Even though research on the influence of institutions entrepreneurial activities has recently gained scholarly attention, most studies are quantitative cross-country analyses that assume response homogeneity. Qualitative single-country provide deeper insights into institutional peculiarities still rare, especially in East Asian context. Based qualitative data generated from semi-struct...

Jane Bear-Lehman, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, is Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Occupational Therapy, New York University, 35 West Fourth Street, New York, NY 10012; [email protected] A s a science-based health profession, occupational therapy involves the art and science of applying scientific knowledge to practice problems. Occupational therapy relies on the processes of applied ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to measure functional outcomes after outpatient occupational therapy for clients who had upper-extremity injury and surgery or both. METHODS A sample of 33 clients referred to occupational therapy outpatient intervention was recruited from five clinics in Ohio. The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) was used to guide the occupational thera...

BACKGROUND Falls are frequent occupational accidents, and are responsible for a significant amount of lost working time and, more importantly, for a high mortality. The factors involved in falling mechanisms can be of external or individual origin, the latter being less well identified. AIMS To assess the relations between certain individual characteristics and occupational accidents due to i...