Annette Kamp

Bridging Collective and Individual Approaches to Occupational Safety and Health: What Promises Does Workplace Health Promotion Hold?

Abstract This paper examines the potential of workplace health promotion to create new approaches to occupational safety and health. In relation to health, workplace health promotion is often regarded as an individualist-based competitor to occupational safety and health. However, the concept of workplace health promotion may be constructed and interpreted along different lines, drawing on different conceptions of health and health promotion. The paper presents a study of how a concept of workplace health promotion that integrates occupational safety and health and lifestyle was developed in the Danish context. This concept represents a hybrid of medical and humanistic understandings of health promotion. It escapes the inherent individualism of health promotion, and displays elements of empowerment, highlighting employee participation. At the same time, it introduces a subjective perspective to occupational safety and health. The concluding discussion considers the possibilities of further developing and institutionalising approaches that integrate collective and subjective approaches to health promotion in the workplace.

Teams, tests og tværprofessionelle relationer – arbejdet i psykiatrien i forandring

Tværfagligt teamarbejde er en praksis, hvor forskellige fagligheder bidrager til at skabe viden, enten ved at supplere hinanden eller ved at arbejde på tværs af forskellige forståelser og skabe nye typer viden. Samtidig er det en proces, hvor fagidentitet og mening er i spil og under forhandling. I denne artikel sættes fokus på de ofte ambivalente og konfliktfulde aspekter af dette samarbejde. Udgangspunktet er psykiatrien, der som andre områder indenfor sundhedssektoren præges af moderniseringsog rationaliseringsprocesser, som blandt andet indebærer et stigende fokus på gennemsigtighed, kontrollerbarhed og evidensbaseret viden. I Artiklen undersøges, hvordan den stigende anvendelse af psykiatriske tests – der kan ses som en mediering af disse moderniseringstendenser er med til at udfordre og forandre vidensidealer, og dermed også grundlaget for det tværprofessionelle samarbejde.