Is the Total Worker Health Program Missing Its Mark?: Integrating Complex Systems Approaches to Unify Vision and Epistemology

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Editorial

Michael Kenneth Lemke. J Occup Environ Med. 2021.

. 2021 May 1;63(5):e304-e307.

doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002183.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The author reports no funding and conflicts of interest to disclose.

Critical Points in Lemke's Total Worker Health Calculus.
Kelly KM, Newman LS, Cherniack M, Punnett L, Hammer LB, Sorensen G. Kelly KM, et al. J Occup Environ Med. 2021 Nov 1;63(11):e821-e822. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002300. J Occup Environ Med. 2021. PMID: 34138825 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
In Response to a Rebuttal that Misses the Mark: Seeing the Forest for the Trees by Integrating Complex Systems Approaches Into Total Worker Health.
Lemke MK. Lemke MK. J Occup Environ Med. 2021 Nov 1;63(11):e823-e824. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002301. J Occup Environ Med. 2021. PMID: 34138826 No abstract available.
In Response to Lemke: Where You See a Forest, I Just See Detritus.
Kelly KM. Kelly KM. J Occup Environ Med. 2021 Nov 1;63(11):e825. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002342. J Occup Environ Med. 2021. PMID: 34334782 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
In Response to Kelly: If You Only See Detritus in the Complex Systems Forest, Then Look Up.
Lemke MK. Lemke MK. J Occup Environ Med. 2021 Nov 1;63(11):e826. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002372. J Occup Environ Med. 2021. PMID: 34456327 No abstract available.

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