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    Implementing sensor technology applications for workplace health promotion: a needs assessment among workers with physically demanding work

    Workers with physically demanding work may be at risk for injury, illness or other adverse health outcomes due to exposure to different occupational hazards, especially at higher age. Sensor technology applica...

    Sander Mathijn Spook, Wendy Koolhaas, Ute Bültmann, Sandra Brouwer in BMC Public Health (2019)

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    Effectiveness of a problem-solving based intervention to prolong the working life of ageing workers

    An ageing workforce combined with increasing health problems in ageing workers implies the importance of evidence-based interventions to enhance sustainable employability. The aim of this study is to evaluate ...

    Wendy Koolhaas, Johan W Groothoff, Michiel R de Boer in BMC Public Health (2015)

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    Chronic health conditions and work ability in the ageing workforce: the impact of work conditions, psychosocial factors and perceived health

    The aim of this study was to determine the influence of work conditions, psychosocial factors and perceived health on the association between the presence of a chronic health condition and (single-item) work a...

    Wendy Koolhaas, Jac J. L. van der Klink in International Archives of Occupational and… (2014)

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    In-Depth Study of the Workers’ Perspectives to Enhance Sustainable Working Life: Comparison Between Workers With and Without a Chronic Health Condition

    Purpose To gain in-depth understanding of the number and type of experienced ageing problems, obstacles to perform work tasks, retention factors to maintain work and support needs to continue wor...

    Wendy Koolhaas, Jac J. L. van der Klink in Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation (2013)

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    Enhancing a sustainable healthy working life: design of a clustered randomized controlled trial

    To improve a sustainable healthy working life, we have developed the intervention 'Staying healthy at work', which endeavours to enhance work participation of employees aged 45 years and older by increasing th...

    Wendy Koolhaas, Sandra Brouwer, Johan W Groothoff in BMC Public Health (2010)