In Brazil, the subject of induced abortion is controversial and considered by some to be a serious public health problem. On the other hand there are little data available as to its frequency and general characteristics. The difficulty encountered in obtaining reliable information is to be explained by the illegality of abortion that inhibits women from talking about their experience, and most ...

OBJECTIVE Organisational downsizing is common in modern work life, but its effect on employees' mental health is not known. The authors examined whether working in downsizing organisations predicts use of psychotropic drugs among employees who remain in employment. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Prospective cohort study of municipal employees in Finland. 4783 employees worked in downsized u...

OBJECTIVE To examine productivity impairment in individuals with obesity and/or binge eating. METHOD Based on current weight and eating behavior, 117,272 employees who had completed a health risk appraisal and psychosocial functioning questionnaire were classified into one of four groups. Gender-stratified analyses compared groups on four measures: absenteeism, presenteeism, total work produc...

Despite the growing gender equality between males and females in educational, social, political and other fields, women are less likely to reach top managerial positions in enterprises and continue to be underrepresented in boardrooms. In this Master thesis, I use survey and registry information to investigate the factors that hamper the career progress of women in a large Finnish firm that ope...

Evaluation of the health state of employees in relation to the working environment is one of the main tasks of occupational medicine. The specified results represent a part of a methodically oriented project which was focused on evaluation of: age structures of employees in the metallurgical plant being monitored in comparison with the age structure in the whole region, evaluation of the health...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether there is an excess risk of breast cancer among female employees of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), especially outside Queensland, compared with women in the general populations of the states and territories. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS We used an occupational cohort design. Information from ABC staff records was linked with data from state an...

The research explores relationship between women's health ,attractiveness and wearing high heels(one of women's accessories) and aims to know the Impact of wearing high heels on women's health and attractiveness . In fact: a lot of women prefer wearing high heels for some reasons although there are some bad results. One of these reasons:, they believe that high heels increase their tall and att...