The concept of work ability
By: Lennart Nordenfelt.
Publisher: P.I.E. Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bruxelles; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789052014500
Subjects: Work capacity evaluation; Disability evaluation; Vocational evaluation; Employment -- legislation & jurisprudence; Work Capacity Evaluation; Disabled Persons -- legislation & jurisprudence; Occupational Medicine -- methods; Professional Competence
Table of contents: title: The International classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF); title: Some methods for assessing work and work ability in the medico-legal context; title: Current classifications of work and work ability; title: Analyses of competence and skill in the context of professional education; title: Contemporary approaches; title: Employability and job evaluation; title: A theoretical analysis; title: Some action-theoretic preliminaries; title: From ability to work ability; title: On work ability and its conditions; title: On other conditions for work; title: Environment change and changes in the concept of disability; title: Minimal ability and the ability of excellence; title: The contexts for the assessment of work ability; title: On definitions of work ability; title: On the requirement of disease as the cause of disability regarding work; title: Towards an analysis of the notions of disease and medical condition; title: On the assessment of work ability; title: General conclusions.