Réflexions sur une expérience interdisciplinaire dans le cadre d’une recherche exploratoire
An exploratory case study was carried out on a population of family and social workers and nurses in a homecare service department in order (1) to identify the various constraints that cause their work to become a health risk ; (2) to study the strategies used to reduce the effect of these constrain...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institut de Recherche Robert-Sauvé en Santé et en Sécurité du Travail (IRSST)
2000-05-01
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| Series: | Perspectives Interdisciplinaires sur le Travail et la Santé |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/pistes/3830 |
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| Summary: | An exploratory case study was carried out on a population of family and social workers and nurses in a homecare service department in order (1) to identify the various constraints that cause their work to become a health risk ; (2) to study the strategies used to reduce the effect of these constraints ; and (3) to pay particular attention to any variations by worker age and experience. A combination of several methodological approaches was applied, namely health and population statistics, sociology of work and ageing, and ergonomics. This paper, based on a detailed analysis of two examples, presents an a posteriori reflection aimed at clarifying why this interdisciplinary combination appeared to be so appropriate and identifying its contributions to each discipline as well as the plus-value it produced. It was found that the interdisciplinary approach contributed at the level of research, in the form of general scientific spin-offs and progress in the individual disciplines, and at the level of the workplace, in the form of functional and other spin-offs affecting the dynamics of social change. |
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| ISSN: | 1481-9384 |