BACKGROUND Sick leave due to neck, shoulder and back disorders (NSBD) is higher among health-care workers, especially nursing aides/assistant nurses, compared with employees in other occupations. More information is needed about predictors of sick leave among health care workers. The aim of the study was to assess whether self-reported factors related to health, work and leisure time could pred...

While I was confined to bed with the flu, my partner went to the local library to find me " something decent to read. " He returned with a kid's book! It's not often children's book makes it to the pages of a professional and academic journal, but Gael Jennings' humorous, yet informative, take on the gorier aspects of the history of medicine makes a fine exception. Jennings spent more than 10 y...

Sick leave due to stress-related disorders is increasing in Sweden after a period of decrease. To avoid that individuals living under heavy stress develop more severe stress-related disorders, different stress management interventions are offered. Self-assessed health, burnout-scores and well-being are commonly used as outcome measures. Few studies have used sick-leave to compare effects of str...

Based on previous researches and current research indoor contaminations in most of the time were more than outdoor contaminations. In according to, most of our times have been spent in indoor environments (85-90%), therefore, it is necessary to investigate indoor environments. Symptoms of sick building syndrome are Headache, dizziness, drowsiness. Unknown reasons of disease above mentioned and ...