Injustice at work and incidence of psychiatric morbidity: the Whitehall II study.

“Injustice at work and incidence of psychiatric morbidity: the Whitehall II study”. Prepared for Occupational Environmental Medicine

Work related factors and ill health The Whitehall II Study

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. 1999 The influences of the psychosocial work environment on self-reported ill-health including alcohol dependence, health functioni...

Effort-reward imbalance, procedural injustice and relational injustice as psychosocial predictors of health: complementary or redundant models?

OBJECTIVE Effort-reward imbalance at work is an established psychosocial risk factor but there are also newer conceptualisations, such as procedural injustice (decisions at work lack consistency, openness and input from all affected parties) and relational injustice (problems in considerate and fair treatment of employees by supervisors). The authors examined whether procedural injustice and re...

What does self rated health measure? Results from the British Whitehall II and French Gazel cohort studies.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the determinants of self rated health (SRH) in men and women in the British Whitehall II study and the French Gazel cohort study. METHODS The cross sectional analyses reported in this paper use data from wave 1 of the Whitehall II study (1985-88) and wave 2 of the Gazel study (1990). Determinants were either self reported or obtained through medical screening and emp...

Work characteristics predict psychiatric disorder: prospective results from the Whitehall II Study.

OBJECTIVES The impact of work on the risk of future psychiatric disorder has been examined in few longitudinal studies. This was examined prospectively in a large epidemiological study of civil servants. METHODS In the Whitehall II study, a longitudinal, prospective cohort study of 6895 male and 3413 female London based civil servants, work characteristics measured at baseline (phase 1: 1985-...