Working conditions and sickness absence: a complex relation

Perceived Working Conditions and Sickness Absence - A Four-year Follow-up in the Food Industry

OBJECTIVES To analyze the association between changes in perceived physical and psychosocial working conditions and change of sickness absence days in younger and older (< 50 and ≥ 50 years) food industry employees. METHODS This was a follow up study of 679 employees, who completed working conditions survey questionnaires in 2005 and 2009 and for whom the requisite sickness absence data were ...

Alcohol intake and sickness absence: a curvilinear relation.

Little is known about the U-shaped relation between alcohol intake and health beyond findings related to cardiovascular disease. Medically certified sickness absence is a health indicator in which coronary heart disease is only a minor factor. To investigate the relation between alcohol intake and sickness absence, records regarding medically certified sick leaves from all causes were assessed ...

Sickness absence and psychosocial work conditions: a multilevel study.

BACKGROUND Psychosocial work conditions, particularly psychological job demands, are inconsistently associated with sickness absence rates. This might be the result of investigating the psychosocial work environment at the individual level, reflecting personal perceptions rather than actual demands. AIM To investigate associations between sickness absence and psychosocial work conditions at b...

Working conditions and sickness absence: the need for action oriented research.

The association between sex segregation, working conditions, and sickness absence among employed women.

AIMS To analyse the association between sickness absence and sex segregation of occupation and of work site, respectively, and to analyse work environmental factors associated with high sickness absence. METHODS The study group consisted of 1075 women employed as nurses, assistant nurses, medical secretaries, or metal workers who answered a questionnaire comprising 218 questions on women's he...