Public Health: Occupational Health Psychology
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral and Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 3892
Special Issue Editor
2. Andalusian School of Public Health, 18011 Granada, Spain
Interests: public health; occupational health; health promotion; gender inequality; occupational health psychology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Changes in economic and technological areas, as well as in demographics, influence the design of work and employment conditions, and these in turn affect people’s health and quality of life.
In this context, it is especially relevant to propose and investigate new paradigms of occupational health that broaden the concept of work and incorporate a vision of work as being a determinant and also a creator of health.
In addition, the successive cycles of economic and health crises affect employment conditions, job stability, working hours, alternation of in-office with remote work, and other changes. The occupational accident rate and exposure to physical and toxic risks have decreased, in part due to the above changes, as well as the fact that they are better known and are more regulated and controlled by law.
However, psychosocial risks have increased and new risks have appeared associated with new technologies, new work formulas (such as telecommuting), or the difficulties of coping with the conflict between work and family life. Likewise, and in part driven by the impact of the COVID pandemic and the inclusion of burnout syndrome in the ICD-11, mental health at work, and psychosocial risks and their consequences, especially occupational stress, are taking their place as first-order aspects to be addressed from the perspective of occupational health.
Public health and the framework for what is a determinant for health are taking center stage in addressing the aforementioned emerging issues.
On the other hand, from a public health framework, work is a determinant factor in health and, as such, implies exposure to possible risks and offers opportunities to be influential as a source of well-being. From this paradigm of health and well-being at work, occupational health psychology offers useful tools that should be made visible and available to the scientific community.
In this Issue, we are interested in receiving publications that address occupational mental health issues from a public health framework, considering work as a determinant of health and that functions along with other determinants.
Research on social inequalities in work-related mental health is also of interest, helping to identify the influence of the different axes of inequality in the effect of work and employment conditions on people's mental health and well-being.
Finally, we are interested in disseminating research that uses analytical frameworks and tools from occupational health psychology.
Dr. Inmaculada Mateo Rodríguez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- occupational health psychology
- public health
- well-being
- inequalities
- mental health
