Work and Health : Risk Groups and Trends Scenario Report Commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios

This book is an edited and updated version of the report Arbeid, gezo- heid en welzijn in de toekomst; toekomstscenarios arbeid en gezondheid 1990-2010 commissioned by the Steering Committe on Future Health Scenarios and published by Bohn, Stafleu and Van Loghum, Houten/- Antwerp in 1991. The authors wish to express their grateful thanks for the constructive comments they received from many people during the writing of this book. The following persons, however, deserve to be mentioned by name: E.W. Bergsma M.A., Prof. F.J.H. van Dijk, Dr. C.L. Ekkers, Prof. F. Huygen, Dr. M.A.J. Kompier, Prof. J.P. Mackenbach, Dr. P.A. van Wely and Dr. J.H.B.M. Willems. SUMMARY Aim and scope of the study The main aim of this book is to show how the field of work and health will develop until the year 2010 under certain economic and other con- ditions. This is done on the basis of a Delphi study carried out with the cooperation of 120 leading experts in the Netherlands. A secondary aim was to investigate the present state of work and health in the Netherlands with the aid of available statistical sources.