BACKGROUND Sickness absenteeism has been a focus of the EU Labour Force Surveys since the early 1970s. In contrast, sickness presenteeism is a newcomer. Based on surveys, this concept emerged in the empirical literature as late as the 1990s. Knowledge of the determinants of sickness presenteeism is still relatively sparse. METHODS The article examines the prevalence of sickness presenteeism i...

This survey study discusses the perception of work-life balance among married female academic librarians in university libraries South-East Nigeria. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 90 from a population 150 working libraries. The examines family and organizational factors respondents. results reveal that have positive balance; however, factor has slightly higher mean score than f...

background: nurses are exposed to various stressful situations in their work environment. it is obvious that occupational stress affects physical and psychological health of nurses and consequently the quality of their work. the purpose of the present study was to determine nursing occupational stress and factors influencing that in order to implement interventional programs for decreasing them...

We schedule appointments with random service durations on multiple servers with operating time limits. We minimize the costs of operating servers and serving appointments, subject to a joint chance constraint limiting the risk of server overtime. Using finite samples of the uncertainty, we formulate the problem as a mixed-integer linear program, and propose a two-stage programming framework whe...

The work environment for anaesthesiologist is characterised by high levels of stress, working under time pressure, delayed or cancelled breaks, frequent overtime, and risk emotional exhaustion. aim the study was to investigate how anaesthesiologists describe their using a sample interns in anaesthesia care from Swedish hospital. A web-based open-ended questionnaire used collect data on experien...

The purpose of the study was to determine the relation between overtime, job strain and life style, and cardiovascular risk (CVR) in 97 managers and 98 physical workers. CVR was measured with the Framingham method. Information about job strain, overtime, life style and extra-occupational activities was obtained with a self-administered questionnaire. The results showed that both groups had a si...