Psychosocial Factors and Workers’ Health and Safety

Relevance of psychosocial factors at work for workers' health.

At the end of the 1970s, the World Health Organization (WHO) held an interdisciplinary forum in Stockholm, with the aims of discussing the infl uence of psychosocial factors on health, formulating measurements and proposing inclusive healthcare policies based on these factors (WHOa 1976). In 1980, the International Labour Organisation and WHO published a document in which they drew attention to...

Psychosocial factors and public health.

proficiency level and factors fostering reticence in efl learners

according to cheng (1999), in recent esl/efl literature, asian (especially east asian) learners of english as a foreign/second language have been arguably reported as reticent and passive learners. the most common allegations are that these students are reluctant to participate in classroom discourse; they are unwilling to give responses; they do not ask questions; and they are passive and over...

Health and Safety of Young Workers

Psychosocial work environment factors and weight change: a prospective study among Danish health care workers

BACKGROUND Lifestyle variables may serve as important intermediate factors between psychosocial work environment and health outcomes. Previous studies, focussing on work stress models have shown mixed and weak results in relation to weight change. This study aims to investigate psychosocial factors outside the classical work stress models as potential predictors of change in body mass index (BM...