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Quality Health Care for Cancer Survivors

AbstractAs the chapters in this book illustrate, the knowledge that forms the current fundamentals of quality care for cancer survivors is not the province of a few professions. This can be both a...

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Return-to-Work Activities in a Chinese Cultural Context

AbstractIntroduction Several studies have been conducted in the West showing that return to work (RTW) coordination is a key element to facilitate RTW of injured workers and to prevent work...

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Prevention and Management of Work Disability in Asia Pacific: Challenges and...

AbstractIntroduction: The economic growth in Asia Pacific brings with it challenges and opportunities in many areas of work and health. As economies grow and work demands increase so do accidents,...

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Occupational Rehabilitation in Twenty-First Century Asia Pacific:...

AbstractIntroduction Asia Pacific has more than 20 countries which are different in terms of size, population, gross domestic product (GDP), and technological development. This paper highlights certain...

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Introduction to Special Section: Advancing the Field of Vocational...

AbstractBackground Work disability is a major burden to individuals and the society. To mitigate this burden, vocational rehabilitation has been at the forefront of facilitating work participation....

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The Journal of Cancer Survivorship: retrospective and future directions

AbstractThis editorial provides an up-to-date breakdown of the topics accepted for publication in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship: Research and Practice. The paper also indicates priority problem...

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Twenty Years of Multidisciplinary Research and Practice: The Journal of...

AbstractBackground Early research of work disability in the 1980s showed a complexity of factors influencing pain and health-related functional limitation at work; hence, multidisciplinary perspectives...

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Cancer Survivors and Work

AbstractThe concerns of cancer survivors in the workplace are increasingly important as the number of cancer survivors increases and as the working population ages. Most cancer survivors work after...

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Educating Health Care Professionals to Provide Institutional Changes in...

AbstractThe Institute of Medicine (IOM) 2006 report, From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition (In M. Hewitt, S. Greenfield and E. Stovall (Eds.), (pp. 9–186). Washington DC: The...

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The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Experiences with Cancer...

AbstractIntroductionThe prevalence of cancer survivorship in the USA is expected to increase in the future because the US population is increasing in size and is aging and because survival following...

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Work Disability Models: Past and Present

AbstractThe activity of model building is central to any scientific practice. As scientific models mediate between theory and the real world, there is a constant need to revise the patterns of evidence...

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Cancer Survivorship

AbstractOver the next few decades the number of cancer survivors in the workplace will escalate to unprecedented levels. The majority of cancer survivors typically do not experience major challenges in...

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Brief self-report measure of work-related cognitive limitations in breast...

AbstractPurposeThe purpose of this research was to develop a brief, reliable self-report measure of work-related cognitive limitations in occupationally active breast cancer survivors.MethodsA pooled...

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Neurocognitive deficits following primary brain tumor treatment: systematic...

AbstractThere has been an increase in the prevalence of adults diagnosed with and treated for primary brain tumors. Cognitive deficits are a common long-term effect in brain tumor survivors. The...

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Chinese Translation and Cross Cultural Adaptation of the Workstyle Short Form

AbstractIntroduction Workstyle as it is related to symptoms of musculoskeletal symptoms of the upper limbs is the behavioural, cognitive and physical responses that occur in individuals to increases in...

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Function and friction at work: a multidimensional analysis of work outcomes...

AbstractObjectivesCancer survivors can experience difficulties returning to and/or remaining at work. Sociodemographic, health and well-being, symptom burden, functional limitations in relation to work...

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The journal of cancer survivorship: informing health care providers and...

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The Impact of Anger on the Intimate Partner Violence Decision-Making Process

AbstractMcFall’s (1982, 1989) Social Information Processing (SIP) model outlines different stages in cognitive processing and decision-making that may be deficient in men who engage in interpersonal...

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