Results and dissemination
Dissemination results
Articles:
Author: Radu-Ioan Popa
Published in Social Change Review, 2015, vol. 13, issue 2.
Cancer Policies in Romania: Challenges in a Low-Resource Healthcare System (former title: Living with cancer in Romania: a review of cancer policies during 2001-2016)
Author: Adela Elena Popa
The article has been revised and submitted again to an international journal.
Employers’ management of employees affected by cancer: A systematic review of the literature
Authors: Amir Ziv, de Boer Angela, Bruinvels David, Cade Sally, Egan Liz, Popa Adela Elena, Taskila Tyna, Tamminga Sietske, Yagil Dana, Munir Fehmidah
Submitted to international journal, in review.
Challenges for employees with cancer in Romania – policies for return to work
Authors: Adela Popa and Radu Popa
Submitted to an international journal.
Unity in diversity: employer experiences and needs regarding workers with cancer across nine countries
Authors: de Rijk, A., Amir, Z., Cohen, M., Furlan, T., Godderis, L., Knezevic, B., Miglioretti, M., Munir, F., Popa, A., Sedlakova, M., Torp, S., Yagil, D., Tamminga, S., de Boer, A.
Submitted to an international journal.
Supporting the return to work after cancer in Romania: the employers’ perspective
Authors: Popa Adela-Elena, Morandau Felicia, Popa Radu-Ioan, Rusu Mihai Stelian, Sidor Alexandra
Submitted to an international journal.
Nongovernment sector fighting cancer in Romania
Authors: Adela Popa, Ionela Vlase, Felicia Morândău
Published in Journal of Community Positive Practices (peer-reviewed journal), 2/2016, 39-55.
Conference papers:
2015
Living and working with and beyond cancer: an overview of cancer policies in Romania, paper presented by Adela Popa at The International Colloquium of Social and Communication Sciences “ACUM”/ The National Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society, Brasov, Romania, 19-20 November 2015. Details here.
2016
Nongovernment sector fighting cancer in Romania, paper presented by Adela Popa, Ionela Vlase and Felicia Morândău, at the International Conferen-ce "Social sciences and the contemporary challenges. 20 years of teaching sociology at the University of Oradea", at Oradea University, 9-10 June 2016. Details here.
Motivations, needs and barriers regarding returning to work after cancer in Romania (poster presentation) presented by Adela Popa, at the European Cancer Rehabilitation & Survivorship Symposium, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 19-20 September 2016. Details here.
Limits and opportunities in addressing cancer by Romanian NGOs paper presented by Adela Popa, Ionela Vlase and Felicia Morândău, at the 4th International Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society (RSS), ”New Societies, Old Minorities / New Minorities, Old Societies?”, in Sibiu, 29th of September – 1 st of October 2016. Details here.
”Lady, don’t you want to retire?”, “No, I don’t!”, “Are you sure? Do you know what illness you have?” - Who hinders the return to work of employees after cancer, paper presented by Adela Popa, at the 4th International Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society (RSS), ”New Societies, Old Minorities / New Minorities, Old Societies?”, in Sibiu, 29th of September – 1 st of October 2016. Details here.
Psychological barriers and facilitators inside the return to work process of cancer patients in Romania, paper presented by Radu Popa, at the 4th International Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society (RSS), ”New Societies, Old Minorities / New Minorities, Old Societies?”, in Sibiu, 29th of September – 1 st of October 2016. Details here.
Employers’ attitudes and behaviours towards employees returning to work after cancer, paper presented by Felicia Morândău, at the 4th International Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society (RSS), ”New Societies, Old Minorities / New Minorities, Old Societies?”, in Sibiu, 29th of September – 1 st of October 2016. Details here.
Barriers in returning to work of Romanian cancer survivors: employers' perspectives, paper presented by Alexandra Sidor, at the 4th International Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society (RSS), ”New Societies, Old Minorities / New Minorities, Old Societies?”, in Sibiu, 29th of September – 1 st of October 2016. Details here.
2017
Return to work after cancer in Romania: policy review and stakeholders’ perspectives, paper presented by Adela Popa at the international conference "Joining Forces around Europe”, organised by the National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM), Loughborough, United Kingdom, 25-27 January 2017.
Returning to work after cancer in Romania: the patients’ views, paper presented by Adela Popa at "The 2nd International Conference on Non-communicable Diseases (ICONiC) ”Hold the Door Against Injury and Disease”, 22-24 May 2017, organized by the Cluj School of Public Health, Cluj-Napoca. Details here.
NGOs involvement in cancer management in Romania, paper presented by Felicia Morândău at "The 2nd International Conference on Non-communicable Diseases (ICONiC) ”Hold the Door Against Injury and Disease”, 22-24 May 2017, organized by the Cluj School of Public Health, Cluj-Napoca. Details here.
Work reintegration after cancer in Romania: an overview of the statutory policies for return to work, paper presented by Radu-Ioan Popa and Adela Popa, at "The 2nd International Conference on Non-communicable Diseases (ICONiC) ”Hold the Door Against Injury and Disease”, 22-24 May 2017, organized by the Cluj School of Public Health, Cluj-Napoca. Details here.
Returning to Work after Cancer in Romania, paper presented by Mihai Stelian Rusu at "The 2nd International Conference on Non-communicable Diseases (ICONiC) ”Hold the Door Against Injury and Disease”, 22-24 May 2017, organized by the Cluj School of Public Health, Cluj-Napoca. Details here.
Unity in diversity: employer experiences and needs regarding workers with cancer across nine countries, paper presented by Adela Popa at the workshop ”Building the Evidence: Uses of Data Across Europe”, organised by the Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, 13 June 2017. Details here.
Reîntoarcerea la muncă după cancer în România: perspective ale pacienților, paper presented by Adela Popa and Alexandra Lupu-Petria at the Dissemination Conference ”Revenirea la muncă după cancer în România: experiențe și provocări”, organized by the Centre for Social Research and ”Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania, in Sibiu, 27 of July 2017.
Reintegrarea în muncă după cancer în România: soluții și limite ale politicilor existente, paper presented by Radu-Ioan Popa at the Dissemination Conference ”Revenirea la muncă după cancer în România: experiențe și provocări”, organized by the Centre for Social Research and ”Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania, in Sibiu, 27 of July 2017.
Reîntoarcerea la muncă după cancer în România: perspective ale angajatorilor, paper presented by Mihai Stelian Rusu, at the Dissemination Conference ”Revenirea la muncă după cancer în România: experiențe și provocări”, organized by the Centre for Social Research and ”Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania, in Sibiu, 27 of July 2017.
Reîntoarcerea la muncă după cancer în România: perspective ale medicilor, paper presented by Alexandra Sidor, at the Dissemination Conference ”Revenirea la muncă după cancer în România: experiențe și provocări”, organized by the Centre for Social Research and ”Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania, in Sibiu, 27 of July 2017.
Implicarea ONG-urilor în lupta împotriva cancerului în România, paper presented by Felicia Morândău, at the Dissemination Conference ”Revenirea la muncă după cancer în România: experiențe și provocări”, organized by the Centre for Social Research and ”Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania, in Sibiu, 27 of July 2017.
Returning to work after cancer in Romania – legal constraints and personal experiences, paper presented by Adela Popa at the "4th Central & Eastern European LUMEN International Scientific Conference on Education, Sport and Health", organized by the LUMEN Research Center for Social and Humanistical Sciences, in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, 29-30 September 2017. Details here.
Other results
Database with 60 articles reviewed
Operationalisations on the concepts employed in the research
(operationalization for cancer patients which returned to work)
Interview guides (for 5 categories of stakeholders)
(interview guide for oncologists)
Informed consent declarations
(informed consent declaration for physicians)
Codebook
(Codebook for the interviews with employers)
Report on studies and databases on cancer and work in Romania
Brochure for employers
Policy brief
Flyer for physicians and patients
