Occupational health psychology addresses worker health and safety by examining occupational stressors, the effects of unemployment, the balance between work and family, workplace violence, the psychosocial factors that affect accident risk, and interventions that protect and promote worker health.
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Central QuestionHow workplace conditions, psychosocial stressors and the organization of work affect the physical and mental health and safety of workers. 1 Key DebateWhether occupational health psychology needed to emerge as its own field because, for many years, the psychology establishment including leaders of Industrial-Organizational psychology rarely dealt with occupational stress and employee health. 1 Connections
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Occupational health psychology applies health psychology's framework specifically to workplace settings.
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1. Wikipedia: Occupational health psychology
Wikimedia FoundationLead section, opening sentence
Occupational health psychology (OHP) is an interdisciplinary area of psychology that is concerned with the health and safety of workers.
Historical overview, Recognition as a field of study section
For many years the psychology establishment, including leaders of I-O psychology, rarely dealt with occupational stress and employee health, creating a need for the emergence of OHP.
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