This work presents a relationship between environmental conditions and reproductive performance in modern humans. Birth rates and sex ratio (SRB) at birth were analyzed from large data scales. The results include data from people working or living under different job respectively socio-economic conditions, such as employees working in the academic field, employees under supervisory or hire and ...

OBJECTIVES We examined whether factors associated with attempting to lose weight in a hospital-based employee workforce varied by race/ethnicity. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey in 6 hospitals in a health system in central Massachusetts. The stratified random sample included 813 employees; men and and non-White employees were oversampled. The primary outcome measure was current ...

The aim was to examine occupational class differences in trajectories of working conditions in ageing female municipal employees. Longitudinal survey data were collected among 40 to 60-year-old employees of the City of Helsinki, Finland. The 2000–2002 baseline survey (N = 8960, response rate 67%) was followed up in 2007 and 2012. Only those female participants who remained employed through all ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the effects of physical work environment on long term sickness absence and to investigate interaction between physical and psychosocial risk factors. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective cohort study of long term sickness absence among employees in Denmark. PARTICIPANTS 5357 employees interviewed in 2000 about their physical work environment, and various covariates were foll...

OBJECTIVES To examine the self-reported level of work ability among female employees and the relationship between work ability and demographic characteristics, physical health, mental health, and various psychosocial and organizational work environment factors. METHODS Participants were 597 female employees with an average age of 43 years from urban and rural areas in Norway. Trained personne...

abstract: background: systemic thinking can provide practice in multidisciplinary team working and improve the organizational efficacy. this study aimed to determine the association between systemic thinking and partnership working in the employees of a medical sciences university in the south of iran. methods: a cross-sectional study was performed in zahedan university of medical sciences (zau...

OBJECTIVE To explore the emerging tobacco epidemic in female workers in the growing micro-electronics industry of Taiwan. METHODS Workers were surveyed regarding their smoking status, sociodemographics and work characteristics. In total, 1950 female employees in two large micro-electronics companies in Taiwan completed the survey. RESULTS Approximately 9.3% of the female employees were occa...

OBJECTIVES Analyse mortality differences between self-employed and paid employees with a focus on industrial sector, educational level and gender using Swedish register data. METHODS A cohort of the total working population (4 776 135 individuals; 7.2% self-employed; 18-100 years of age at baseline 2003) in Sweden with a 5-year follow-up (2004-2008) for all-cause and cause-specific mortality ...