concluding that overtime work has a relationship with short sleep duration (<6 hours/day) even at 26 hours/ month. Virtanen et al. reported a cross-sectional study and two longitudinal studies that examined the relationship between long working hours and short sleep duration. A significant odds ratio for short sleep duration (<7 hours/day) was observed in a case-control study when weekly workin...

Patients' risks from medication errors are widely acknowledged. Yet not all errors, if they occur, have the same risks for severe consequences. Facing resource constraints, policy makers could prioritize factors having the greatest severe-outcome risks. This study assists such prioritization by identifying work-related risk factors most clearly associated with more severe consequences. Data fro...

Not in medicine (and certainly not if Jeremy Hunt had his way). But, while we’re talking seven day working here, the world’s favourite country music star has been putting some overtime recently. No, but she’d probably be number one we …

In today’s scenario, working overtime on computers or watching television has been increased leading to early age dry eye syndrome. The stress can lead to adverse ocular conditions such as those associated with oxidative and/or free radical damage within the eye. These conditions can evolve a condition, disease, or disorder of the cornea, retina, lens, sclera, anterior segment, or posterior seg...

The goal of the present study was to investigate the relation of hours of overtime work to cigarette consumption and addiction to cigarette, which was measured by the heaviness of smoking index. The subjects were 571 male daily smokers who responded to a cross-sectional survey of municipal employees of a Japanese city office, in which smoking was permitted in designated areas. Those who engaged...

The aim of this study was to clarify the association between sleeping time and job stress in male Japanese workers. Male workers at one manufacturing plant were surveyed about job stress and sleeping time using a selfcompleted questionnaire. A total of 274 white-collar daytime workers were analyzed. Job stress factors and stress response were assessed using the Job Stress Questionnaire. Sleepin...

BACKGROUND The objectives of this study are to identify family and job characteristics associated with long work hours, to analyse the relationship between long work hours and several health indicators, and to examine whether gender differences for both objectives exist. METHODS The sample was composed of all salaried workers aged 16-64 years (3950 men and 3153 women) interviewed in the 2006 ...