background: identifying the pattern of tobacco use and its related factors in employees is crucial. this study aimed to investigate the pattern of tobacco use and its related factors in employees of kermanshah province, iran. methods: in 2012, 7129 employees were investigated in a cross‑sectional study using the census method. data on tobacco use and on several chronic diseases obtained using a...

OBJECTIVE To identify predictors of the willingness and ability of older workers to continue working until the age of 65. METHODS In this longitudinal study, 4937 employees aged 45 to 63 years included in the Netherlands Working Conditions Cohort Study were studied. Logistic regression analyses were applied. RESULTS Employees who experienced emotional exhaustion and bullying or harassment b...

The fast economy and technology development as well as the competitive markets nowadays results in high expectation on performance of employees in companies. Therefore, a working environment which can take care of the wellbeing of employees is important for an employee to stay healthy, enjoy work and be able to develop himself / herself. In this paper we propose and demonstrate a design of a fe...

1824 serum samples collected from employees of four hospitals, 538 from inpatients of one of the hospitals, and 352 from healthy inhabitants (control) of a town near one of the hospitals were surveyed for antibody to adult T-cell leukemia-associated antigen (anti-ATLA). Overall prevalence was 6.3 % for the hospital employees, 16.0 % for the inpatients, and 12.2 % for the control. Office workers...

Health-related quality of life (HRQL) is an important measure of health outcome in working and healthy populations. Here, we investigated the impact of effort-reward imbalance (ERI), a representative work-stress model, on HRQL of Japanese working men. The study targeted 1,096 employees from a manufacturing plant in Japan. To assess HRQL and ERI, participants were surveyed using the Japanese ver...

Objectives The current study examined the extent to which symptom improvement and full return to work occurs among clinically burnt-out employees and what the influence of concurring sleep problems is with respect to health recovery. Methods Fifty-nine burnt-out employees on extended sick leave assessed their symptoms for 2 weeks using an electronic diary. After 6 months, the measurements were ...

OBJECTIVES Sickness absence in workplaces may reflect working conditions. It may also reflect a "healthy hire effect," i.e., that workplaces recruit individuals with experience of sickness absence differently. The purpose of the study was to determine if a history of sickness absence among recruits is associated with the average level of sickness absence in workplaces. MATERIAL AND METHODS In...

OBJECTIVES Increased utilization of preventive services among the aging has been associated with improved health status and decreased medical costs. We sought to examine the use of the Health Risk Appraisal (HRA) in benchmarking compliance and characterizing those retired employees who met preventive service guidelines. DESIGN A retrospective cohort study of retired employees age 65 and older...

BACKGROUND As Uganda's economy improves, many people tend to adopt western diets and sedentary life styles that predispose to cardiovascular diseases including hypertension. These may be in silent danger without any typical symptoms to send early warning signals. In Uganda, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes mellitus are rapidly emerging as major causes of morbidity and mortality. OBJ...