Articles:
De Boer Angela GEM, Torp Steffen, Popa Adela, Horsboel Trine, Zadnik Vesna, Rottenberg Yakir, Bardi Edit, Bultmann Ute & Sharp Linda. 2020. Long-term work retention after treatment for cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Cancer Survivorship, 14(2): 135-150. Doi: 10.1007/s11764-020-00862-2.
Angelique de Rijk, Ziv Amir, Miri Cohen, Tomislav Furlan, Lode Godderis, Bojana Knezevic, Massimo Miglioretti, Fehmidah Munir, Adela Elena Popa, Maria Sedlakova, Steffen Torp, Dana Yagil, Sietske Tamminga, Angela de Boer. 2019. The challenge of return to work in workers with cancer: employer priorities despite variation in social policies related to work and health, Journal of Cancer Survivorship. DOI 10.1007/s11764-019-00829-y
Adela Elena Popa, Felicia Morândău, Radu-Ioan Popa, Mihai Stelian Rusu, Alexandra Sidor. 2020. Supporting the Return to Work After Cancer in Romania: Exploring Employers’ Perspectives. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. 30(1): 59-71. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-019-09846-1.
Adela Elena Popa and Radu-Ioan Popa. 2020. Working as a cancer survivor in Romania: an overview of the statutory policies for return to work, Disability and Rehabilitation. 42(19): 2679-2686. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2019.1577498
Amir, Ziv, Popa, Adela, Tamminga, Sietske, Yagil, Dana, Munir, Fehmidah, de Boer, Angela. 2018. Employer’s management of employees affected by cancer, in Supportive Care in Cancer, 26(3), 681-684, doi 10.1007/s00520-017-3998-8.
Adela Elena Popa, Hospital decentralisation in Romania: stakeholders’ perspectives in the newsprint media, in The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, vol. 29(1), pp. 70-89, 2014, DOI: 10.1002/hpm.2168.
Adela Elena Popa. The National Cancer Programme in Romania: Challenges in a Low-Resource Healthcare System, Journal of Cancer Policy, 2017, vol. 14, 33-38.
Adela Elena Popa, Ionela Vlase, Felicia Morândău, Nongovernmental Sector Fighting Cancer in Romania, in Journal of Community Positive Practices, 2/2016, 39-55.
Cărți și capitole în cărți:
Adela Elena Popa. 2015. Sociologia și noile provocări din domeniul sănătății [Sociology and the new challenges in the health field], in the volume Voicu, B, Rusu, H, Popa, AE (eds.) ”Este România altfel? Societatea și sociologia … încotro?” [Is Romania different? Society and sociology where to?], Bucharest, Tritonic (print), Sibiu, „Lucian Blaga” University Publishing House (online), ISBN 978-606-12-1225-5.
Popa, Adela Elena, Butvilas, Tomas, Arslan, Hasan & Icbay, Mehmet Ali (2015). Contextual approaches in sociology. Frakfurt: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-631-66607-4.
Adela Elena Popa, Participare comunitară în sănătate în România – un concept fără consistenţă? [Community participation in health in Romania – an empty concept?] in volume Pascaru, Mihai, Marina, Lucian, Buţiu, Călina Ana (eds.). 2014. Intelligence, territories and human development, Presa Universitară Clujeană, ISBN 978-973-595-707-0, pp. 69-80.
Adela Elena Popa, Implementing a social policy in the health care sector: the media construction of the process in the volume Ivan, Loredana, Daba-Buzoianu, Corina şi Gray Brenden (eds.). 2014. Mapping Heterogeneity: Qualitative Research in Communication, Tritonic, ISBN 978-606-8571-51-5, pp. 331-359.
Adela Elena Popa, Sat bogat, sat sărac. Comunitate, identitate, proprietate în ruralul românesc [Rich village, poor village. Community, identity, property in rural Romania], 2010, Bucharest: European Institute. ISBN 978-973-611-674-2, 334 pages.
Conferințe:
November 2020: the paper Cancer and Work in Romania, presented at the international online conference Oncology Patients: "do we have the right to work?”, Zagreb, Croatia.
December 2019: the paper Negotiating return to work after chronic illness in the age of demographic change through industrial relations, presented at the Annual Conference in Sociology and Social Work, edition XVIII, Sibiu, 13-14 December, Sibiu.
September 2019: the paper Work after cancer? The needs and motivations of cancer patients in relation to work resumption, presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of European Health Psychology Society „Individual and Professionals: Cooperation to Health”. Dubrovnik, Croatia, 3-7 September 2019.
November 2018: the paper Returning to work after cancer in Romania – the patients' views on motivations and barriers (poster) presented at The Cancer Conference of National Cancer Reasearch Institute. Glasgow, UK, 4-6 November 2018.
September 2018: the paper Returning on the labour market after cancer in Romania – the employers’ and employees’ perspectives, presented at The 5th International Conference of the Romanian Sociologists Society – “Living in a liquid society”, Timișoara, Romania, 14-15 September 2018.
September 2018: the workshop Returning to work after cancer – psychosocial challenges for employers and employees with cancer proposed (together with Felicia Morândău) at The 2nd Eastern European Conference of Mental Health „In and out of your mind”, Sibiu, 27-30 September 2018.
November 2017: the paper Returning on the labour market after cancer: implications for policy-makers and local institutional actors, presented at the Transylvanian International Conference in Public Administration, Panel on Public Health, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2-4 November 2017.
November 2017: the paper Unity in diversity: employer experiences and needs regarding workers with cancer across 9 countries, (co-author) presented at ”The 10th European Public Health Conference - Sustaining resilient and healthy communities”, Stockholm, Suedia, 1-4 November 2017. Published abstract: A de Rijk; Z Amir; T Furlan; B Knezevic; A Popa; M Sedlakova; A Boer. 2017. Unity in diversity: employer experiences and needs regarding workers with cancer across 9 countries, in European Journal of Public Health, vol. 27, suppl. 3, doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckx187.346
September 2017: the paper Participare cu lucrarea Returning to work after cancer in Romania – legal constraints and personal experiences, presented at the "4th Central & Eastern European LUMEN International Scientific Conference on Education, Sport and Health", organized by the Centre for Social and Humanistic Research LUMEN, in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, 29-30 September 2017.
July 2017: the paper Reîntoarcerea la muncă după cancer în România: perspective ale pacienților (co-author Alexandra Lupu Petria), presented at the dissemination conference Returning to work after cancer: experiences and challenges, organized within the project PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-0478.
June 2017: the paper Unity in diversity: employer experiences and needs regarding workers with cancer across nine countries, presented at the workshop ”Building the Evidence: Uses of Data Across Europe”, organized at the Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, 13 June 2017.
May 2017: the paper Returning to work after cancer in Romania: the patients’ views, presented 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, Romania.
January 2017: the paper Return to work after cancer in Romania: policy review and stakeholders’ perspectives, presented at the conference ”Joining Forces around Europe”, organized at the National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM), 25-27 January 2017, Loughborough, United Kingdom.
September 2016. The poster Motivations, needs and barriers regarding returning to work after cancer in Romania, presented by Adela Popa, at the European Cancer Rehabilitation & Survivorship Symposium, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 19-20 September 2016.
June 2016. The paper Nongovernment sector fighting cancer in Romania, paper presented by Adela Popa, Ionela Vlase and Felicia Morândău, at the International Conference "Social sciences and the contemporary challenges. 20 years of teaching sociology at the University of Oradea", at Oradea University, 9-10 June 2016. (authors: Adela Popa, Ionela Vlase and Felicia Morândău).
November 2015: the paper Living and working with and beyond cancer: an overview of cancer policies in Romania, presented at the The International Colloquium of Social and Communication Sciences “ACUM”/ The National Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society, Brasov, Romania, 19-20 November 2015.
August 2015: the paper Cancer patients returning to work in Romania, presented at the 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination, Prague, 25-28 August 2015.