Women's Studies 2244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Occupational Stress, Neoliberalism, Intersectionality

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2244
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Occupational health deals with all aspects of health and safety in the workplace and has a strong focus on primary prevention of hazards. Several determinants, including risk factors at the workplace leading to cancers, accidents, musculoskeletal diseases, respiratory diseases, hearing loss, circulatory diseases, stress-related disorders and communicable diseases and others. Employment and working conditions in the formal or informal economy embrace other important determinants, including, working hours, salary, workplace policies concerning maternity leave, health promotion and protection provisions, etc. Occupational illness develops over time because of workplace conditions. Occupational stress linked to chronic illness, such as cvd. Androcentric vision of ohr: danger associated with specific tools and hazards that characterize workplace traditionally dominated by men, privilege acute over chronic injury, neglect risks associated with emotional labour. Women more likely than men to have jobs that require static standing (e. g, cashier) or fast, repetitive motions > msk injuries. Focuses on health of individuals as workers.