This study quantifies the impact of psychosocial work environment factors on the risk of disability pension. Differences in risk of disability pension were estimated in a representative sample of Danish employees followed for a total of 118 117 person-years of risk time. After control for smoking, BMI and ergonomic work environment, low decision authority and low variation in work showed a stat...

Objective: To determine psychosocial risk factors for acute myocardial infarction at a teaching hospital in Karachi. Methods: One hundred and fifty three cases were recruited from cardiology clinics and 153 controls from internal medicine and family medicine clinics of Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, through non-probability sampling using a structured questionnaire. Cases were those who ...

OBJECTIVE The present paper investigates on lay people's beliefs regarding cancer risk factors' and their correlates, especially people's socioeconomic status (SES), as they may heavily contribute to social health inequalities. METHODS We used data from the 2010 Baromètre Cancer, a national representative telephone survey conducted in France (N = 3359, age 15-75, participation rate 52%). RE...

AIM To examine the associations between psychosocial work factors and general health outcomes, taking into account other occupational risk factors, within the national French working population. METHODS The study was based on a large national sample of 24 486 women and men of the French working population who filled in a self-administered questionnaire in 2003 (response rate: 96.5%). Psychoso...

has several papers with a psychosocial theme. As its popularity has increased over the past decade, the use of the term 'psychosocial' has been very varied within health research including social epidemiology. A quick glance at Medline shows that it has been used in connection with at least the following: causes and risk factors ('psychosocial causation', 'psychosocial influences', 'psychosocia...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To assess the direct and indirect contributions of material, behavioural, and psychosocial factors to the explanation of educational inequalities in mortality simultaneously. DESIGN Prospective observational study (1991-1998). SETTING General population from south east Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS 3979 men and women aged 15-74 years without severe chronic disease at baseline...

BACKGROUND Behavioural, material and psychosocial risk factors may explain educational inequalities in general health. To what extent these risk factors have similar or different contributions to educational inequalities in mental health is unknown. METHODS Data were derived from the Norwegian Survey of Level of Living from 2005, comprising 5791 respondents aged ≥ 25 years. The study objectiv...

BACKGROUND The aim was to study the impact of psychosocial risk factors on long-term sickness absence due to mental health problems (LSA-MH) or musculoskeletal disorders (LSA-MSD) in 2983 Belgian middle-aged workers. METHODS Data were collected from 1372 male and 1611 female workers in the Belstress III study. Considered psychosocial risk factors were job demands, job control, social support,...