Risk and resilience: health inequalities, working conditions and sickness benefit arrangements: an analysis of the 2010 European Working Conditions survey

Working conditions and social inequalities in health.

Mental Health and Working Conditions in European Countries

Mental Health and Working Conditions in European Countries Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers’ performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates the links between contractual arrangement...

Socioeconomic inequalities in health in the working population: the contribution of working conditions.

BACKGROUND The aim was to study the impact of different categories of working conditions on the association between occupational class and self-reported health in the working population. METHODS Data were collected through a postal survey conducted in 1991 among inhabitants of 18 municipalities in the southeastern Netherlands. Data concerned 4521 working men and 2411 working women and include...

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, ...

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