This study theorizes why full-time working women with partners and school-age children deploy talk of maximal irreplaceable maternal care. The concept presenteeism frames women's personal beliefs, perceptions, ambitions as subject to normative pressures associated intensive mothering a postfeminist sensibility. accounts 20 who combine motherhood professional work are analyzed using thematic ana...

BACKGROUND Suicidal ideation is more prevalent among physicians, compared to the population in general, but little is known about the factors behind surgeons' suicidal ideation. A surgeon's work environment can be competitive and characterised by degrading experiences, which could contribute to burnout, depression and even thoughts of suicide. Being a surgeon has been reported to be predictor f...

BACKGROUND Knowledge about influenza transmission in the workplace and whether staying home from work when experiencing influenza-like illness can reduce the spread of influenza is crucial for the design of efficient public health initiatives. AIM This review synthesizes current literature on sickness presenteeism and influenza transmission in the workplace and provides an overview of sick le...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Evidence on indirect cost of Crohn's disease (CD) is available but typically provides information on the loss of productivity at paid work of patients. In the present study, the quality of life and indirect costs of CD patients were assessed (overall and by disease severity). METHODS A self-report questionnaire-based study among adult Polish patients with CD was performed....

OBJECTIVE To examine the associations between organizational (bonding, bridging, and linking) social capital, employees' health, and employees' performance. METHODS Linear regression on cross-sectional data among 718 employees in two Dutch companies. RESULTS Organizational social capital was significantly associated with perceived health (β = 0.20; P < 0.001) and with emotional exhaustion (...

The overall aim of this thesis was to improve our understanding of contemporary aspects of health and performance among young adult women and men in Sweden. Cultural and structural changes in society have resulted in new environmental conditions, which in turn give rise to new potential health hazards. The constituent studies of this thesis examined three such circumstances: a) an increasing nu...