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Surveillance, Monitoring, and Evaluation

Regulatory and Voluntary Approaches on Health, Safety, and Well-Being

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Handbook of Disability, Work and Health

Part of the book series: Handbook Series in Occupational Health Sciences ((HDBSOHS,volume 1))

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The aim of this chapter is to present key policy approaches to surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation of health, safety, and well-being at work in terms of hard law (binding) and soft law (voluntary) approaches. Both hard and soft laws are important for employed people with a disability or those being at risk of disability. The chapter will first examine regulatory approaches, followed by voluntary approaches. It will present examples of both these types of approaches at the international, regional, and national levels while considering outcomes achieved. Finally the chapter will conclude by critically examining challenges in implementing these approaches for effective surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation.

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  1. Department of Marketing and Management, Cork University Business School, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Stavroula Leka

  2. Management Division, Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Aditya Jain

  3. School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Stavroula Leka

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  1. Department of Health Sciences, Community and Occupational Medicine, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Ute Bültmann

  2. Centre for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Johannes Siegrist

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Leka, S., Jain, A. (2020). Surveillance, Monitoring, and Evaluation. In: Bültmann, U., Siegrist, J. (eds) Handbook of Disability, Work and Health. Handbook Series in Occupational Health Sciences, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24334-0_14

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