Linkages between working conditions improvement and occupational health.

Working conditions of occupational therapists in Jordan.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the working conditions and factors related to job satisfaction among Jordanian occupational therapists. A self-administered survey consisting of several questions about the participants' jobs was developed for this study. The inclusion criteria included occupational therapists who worked in the field of occupational therapy (OT) in Jordan and who had...

Physical and psychosocial working conditions as explanations for occupational class inequalities in self-rated health.

BACKGROUND Socio-economic health inequalities are well documented, but efforts to explain health inequalities are less. However, previous studies suggest that working conditions provide potential explanations for inequalities in health. METHODS Cross-sectional questionnaire survey data, collected from municipal employees of the City of Helsinki, aged 40-60 years (n = 8960, response rate 67%) ...

Working conditions and social inequalities in health.

Working conditions and female reproductive health.

I n this issue of World Journal of Pediatrics, Lin and co-workers report an interesting study on the effect of rotating shift work for female employees on childbearing and infant birth weight (page 129). [1] In their study of female workers in a semiconductor factory, they found a significant lower birth rate among women working shifts compared to women on consisting daytime work. Furthermore, ...

Determining the relationship between burnout and general health among health workers working in Arak health center

Introduction:Work environments have harmful physical, social, and workplace psychological factors that can affect people's health and disrupt other areas of people's lives. Workplace human resources spend at least a third of their lives at work, and the pressures and stresses of work can jeopardize their health and, consequently, threaten organizational interests and goals. Decreasing the perfo...