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Preface

Should Work and Nonwork Injuries be Compensated Differently?

Chapter 1 Should Work Injuries and Nonwork Injuries be Compensated Differently?

Stephen Adler

Chapter 2 Overprotection versus Discrimination in Legislation for the Disabled

Bracha Ben-Zvi

Chapter 3 Should Work Injuries and Nonwork Injuries be Compensated Differently?

John F. Burton, Jr.

Chapter 4 Should Work Injuries and Nonwork Injuries be Compensated Differently?

Maximilian Fuchs

Chapter 5 Should Work Injuries and Nonwork Injuries be Compensated Differently?

Antoine Jacobs

Chapter 6 Should Work Injuries and Nonwork Injuries be Compensated Differently?

Asbjorn Kjonstad

Chapter 7 Should There be a Separate Social Insurance System for Work-Related Accidents or Diseases?

Jef Van Langendonck

The Effects of Stress at the Workplace and Workplace Violence

Chapter 8 The Effects of Stress at the Workplace

Peter S. Barth

Chapter 9 Violence in the Workplace: Fact or Fiction?

Donald Elisburg

Chapter 10 The Impact of Stress in the Workplace

Menachem Goldberg

Chapter 11 The Role of Stressors in Triggering Acute Cardiovascular Disease

Geoffrey H. Tofler

James E. Muller

Chapter 12 The Effects of Stress at the Workplace as a Cause of Mental Disease

Israela Zaterman

Idit Itzcovich

Occupational Diseases

Chapter 13 Reflections on Professional Opinions that Evaluate the Association Between Illness and Exposure

Nathan Amite

Enrique Bitchatchi

Chapter 14 Legal Aspects of Environmental Exposure at Work as it Affects Fertility, Reproduction, and Pregnancy

Hadara Bar-Mor

Chapter 15 An International View of Workers' Compensation for Occupational Disease

Peter S. Barth

Chapter 16 Recognition of Low-Back Disease as an Industrial Injury

Anne Lind Madsen

Chapter 17 Back Pain as an Occupational Disease in Germany

Friedrich Mehrhoff

Chapter 18 Ocular Work Injuries

Morton H. Seelenfruend

Meir Neufeld

Assessing the Degree of Disability

Chapter 19 Assessing the Degree of Disability

Antoine Jacobs

Chapter 20 The Procedure of Determining Incapacity for Work and Reduced Earning Capacity According to the German Workers' Compensation Law

Juergen Kruse

Chapter 21 Case Study: Assessment of Incapacity to Work in Austria

Theodor Tomandl

Rehabilitation of People Injured at Work

Chapter 22 Organizing to Improve Return to Work

Monroe Berkowitz

Chapter 23 Individuals with Work-Related Disabilities: Locus of Control, Attitudes toward Work, and Cooperation with the Rehabilitation Counselor

Arie Rimmerman

Ilana Duvdevany

Chapter 24 A Framework for Examining Return to Work in Workers' Compensation: A View from One North American Jurisdiction

Sandra J. Sinclair

Terrence J. Sullivan

Judith A. Clarke

John W. Frank

Workers' Compensation Administration

Chapter 25 The Interjurisdictional Agreement on Workers' Compensation: A Step Forward for Canadian Workers with Work-Related Injuries

Claire Marie Fortin

Roberta Houston

Chapter 26 Florida Workers' Compensation Adjudicatory System: Administrative versus Judicial

Alan M. Kuker

The Design of Social Insurance Programs

Chapter 27 Constraining and Reducing the Costs of Social Welfare

Antoine Jacobs

Chapter 28 Forty Years of Social Security in Israel

Joseph Tamir

Suggested Readings

Index

List of Contributors