Handbook of Life Course Occupational Health

Introduction - A Life Course Perspective on Work and Mental Health: The Working Lives of Young Adults - Biomechanical hazards at work and adverse health using Job-Exposure Matrices - Challenges of Large Cohort and Massive Data in Occupational Health - Chemical hazards at work and occupational diseases using Job Exposure Matrices - Gig work and health - Integration of occupational exposure into exposome - Job exposure matrices: Design, validation and limitations - Labour and social policies - Two pathways between occupation and health - Long working hours and health effects - Methods in modeling life course - Pathways to Retirement and Health Effects - Precarious Work and Health - Psychosocial work environment and health: applying Job- exposure matrices - Falling sick while working: an overview of the EU-level policy framework on returning to work following chronic disease(s) - Sequence Analysis and some of its uses to study occupational health - Shift work, night shift and health effects - Transformation of modern work and the rise of employment - Work and non work trajectories - Worksite health-promotion: evidence on effects and challenges - Working careers with common mental disorders - Working careers with physical disability - Adverse Effect of Psychosocial Stressors at Work and Long Working Hours Along the Cardiovascular Continuum - Impact of new technologies on work and employment - Genetics, epigenetics and health at work - Adverse employment histories: concept, measurement and health effects - Occupational trajectories and health inequalities in a global perspective - Conceptual and methodological directions of occupational life course research, included after pandemic changes - Occupational differences in work related mental health: a lifecourse +A2:A31analysis of recent trends in the European context

Morten Wahrendorf works at the Institute for Medical Sociology of the University Düsseldorf, Germany, where he leads the working group on "Work & Health". He has previously worked at the International Centre For Life-course Studies in Society and Health (ICLS) at University College London. His main research areas are work stress, health inequalities, life course epidemiology, ageing, and the comparative analyses of longitudinal cohort studies. He leads several projects that investigates both individual and national predictors of working conditions across the life course and their long-term effects on health at older ages. His research expertise spans different disciplines-including public health, epidemiology, statistics and sociology.
Tarani Chandola is a Professor of Medical Sociology. He is the head of the department of Sociology and the director of the Methods Hub in the Faculty of theSocial Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. He joined the University of Hong Kong in August 2021 and was formerly the head of department of Social Statistics at the University of Manchester. His research is primarily on the social determinants of health, focusing on health inequalities and psychosocial factors, social-biological research and the analysis of longitudinal cohort studies.

Alexis Descatha is a Professor in Occupational Health in Paris then in Angers (Western of France),  at University of Angers/ Inserm Irster/Ester, and lead the Clinical Toxicological Unit - Poison Control Center, in university hospital of Angers. His research focuses on the epidemiology of work disorders, musculoskeletal and other chronic diseases. He has interest on exposure assessment using a job exposure matrix and on performing systematic reviews. As emergency physician, he also conducts research on emergencies in occupational settings and created the ICOH's scientific committee on