Handbook of Socioeconomic Determinants of Occupational Health

Toeres Theorell is Emeritus Professor at Stockholm University. He presently serves as scientific consultant for the Institute for Stress Research at the university and is active at the department of Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Between 1967 and 1978, Theorell worked as a physician in internal medicine. From 1979 he has been a researcher in stress medicine and social medicine. Between 1995 and 2006 he was Director of the Swedish National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health and was also a professor at the Karolinska Institute. Since the mid-1980s he has published in the area of cultural participation and health. Theorell's research covers diverse areas in health, from epidemiology to clinical observational studies and controlled interventions. Physiological stress mechanisms relating to cardiovascular disease has been one of Theorell's most prominent areas of work. Theorell has been the first author or co-author of more than 400 original publications in international, peer-reviewed scientific journals. He has also contributed chapters to numerous handbooks and textbooks in English. He has, for instance, contributed to the Handbook of Culture and Health (eds Clift, Camic, Wilson, Oxford University Press, forthcoming). His most widely quoted publication was with Robert Karasek (Healthy Work, Basic Books, New York, 1990).

The impact of socio-political upheaval: Russia and Eastern Europe.- Precarious employment in low and middle income countries.- Downsizing, restructuring and 'survivor disease'.- Interactions of work and health: an economic perspective.- Gender perspectives on employment and health.- Impacts of climate change on working people.- Social inequalities in health in older people or people after retirement.- Social inequalities in the transition from work to retirement.- From national labor, economic and social policies to individual working conditions: multilevel concepts, evidence and challenges.- The role of international organizations.- The social distribution of occupational hazards.- Occupational noise.- Shift work.- Long working hours.- Under- and over-employment.- Physical activity at work.- Job insecurity.- Job intensity: evidence from high income countries.- Job intensity: evidence from middleand low income countries.- Impact of digitalization on work and employment.- Early life conditions and critical employment trajectories.- Demand-control-support.- Effort-reward imbalance.- Organizational injustice.- Job demands and resources.- Psychosocial safety climate.- Social conflicts and offense to self.- Work-life balance: Definitions, Causes, and Consequences.- Job interventions for improvement of management by means of art experiences.- Organizational-level interventions.- Financial gains, possibilities and limitations of improving occupational health at the company level.- Health economic evaluation of workplace health promotion.- Stress disequilibrium.- Regenerative physiology counteracting damaging effects of long-lasting energy mobilisation.- Work stress and autonomic nervous system activity.- Work stress, immune and inflammatory markers.- Work stress and health-adverse behaviors.