Health hazards psychosocial

Finally, psychosocial/psychological hazards (i.e., emotion-related stresses) are considered one of the most pressing health hazards, with constant demands from the institution, patients, housekeepers, and coworkers such as nurses or doctors. Additional information on health care worker hazards is available in Refs. [8,9]. 

Cox, T. and Cox, S. (1993). Psychosocial and Organizational Hazards Monitoring and Control. Occasional Series in Occupational Health, 5. Copenhagen World Health Organization (Europe). 

Indicators might be directed at different aspects of health, safety and environment (HSE), such as major hazards, occupational hazards and illnesses, helicopter transportation hazards, physical and psychosocial working environment aspects, behaviours, attitudes and safety culture, as well as perceptions of risk (Vinnem 2010). The indicators may also differ according to types of damage, such as damage to persons, assets or environment (0ien et al. 2011b). 

Each day health care workers are exposed to many types of hazards. The main ones are shown in Figure 7.2 [8]. These are infectious hazards, physical hazards, environmental hazards, chemical hazards, and psychosocial/psy-chological hazards (i.e., emotional stress). Infectious hazards are basically concerned with various types of infections. Health care workers are exposed routinely to many types of infectious hazards, particularly blood-borne pathogens. Over the past few decades, blood-borne pathogens have received increasing attention because of the focus on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which can resulf in acquired immune deficiency S5mdrome (AIDS) [8]. 

CISDOC provides international coverage of all topics related to occupational health and safety, and the working environment. The record.s contain English abstracts on various specific subjects occupational medicine, industries and occupations, chemical safety, fires, explosions and major hazards, mechanical hazards, ergonomics, stress and psychosocial factors, and others. 

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