Identifying shift worker chronotype: implications for health

The Munich ChronoType Questionnaire for Shift-Workers (MCTQShift).

Sleep is systematically modulated by chronotype in day-workers. Therefore, investigations into how shift-work affects sleep, health, and cognition may provide more reliable insights if they consider individual circadian time (chronotype). The Munich ChronoType Questionnaire (MCTQ) is a useful tool for determining chronotype. It assesses chronotype based on sleep behavior, specifically on the lo...

Governance of HIV/AIDS: Implications for Health Sector Response

This paper reviews the essence of effective governance and importance of a multi-sectoral approach in generating health systems response to HIV/AIDS. This comprehensive approach highlights the importance of integrating reproductive sexual health programs and HIV prevention services, including peer education, life skills, and Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT), for Prevention of Mother–to-Ch...

Strain and health implications of nurses' shift work.

OBJECTIVES The study investigated whether nurses' different working schedules are associated with different levels of job-related strain, health symptoms and behavior. No reports have been accessible in the relevant literature on the possible association between shift work and job-related strain in nurses. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study conducted at a large university ...

Community Health Worker Programmes

Sleepy, circadian disrupted and sick: Could intestinal microbiota play an important role in shift worker health?

A sizable percentage of the population stands to benefit from importance of sufficient, consolidated sleep to maintain a diverse and elucidating mechanisms linking sleep loss, circadian misalignment, and metabolic disease. In particular, shift work is associated with increased risk for metabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome [1]. These workers also report ...