OBJECTIVE Socioeconomic differences in sickness absence (SA) are well established among older employees but poorly understood among the young. Our aim was to examine 12-year trends in educational differences in SA among young female and male employees, and to assess the magnitude of the differences. DESIGN We examined annual SA spells. The data were obtained from the employer's registers and ...

OBJECTIVES On December 1, 2015, the Japanese government launched the Stress Check Program, a new occupational health policy to screen employees for high psychosocial stress in the workplace. As only weak evidence exists for the effectiveness of the program, we sought to estimate the risk of stress-associated long-term sickness absence as defined in the program manual. METHODS Participants wer...

Smith, J. W. G., Pollard, R., Fletcher, W. B., Barker, R., and Lewis, J. R. (1974). British Journal of Industrial Medicine, 31, 292-297. Influenza vaccination-acceptance in an industrial population. Influenza vaccination was offered in a pharmaceutical factory of approximately 6 000 employees in December 1971 and again in December 1972. The rate of acceptance of vaccination was 42% in 1971 but ...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between quality of life, anxiety and job satisfaction in women employees in ray zone in tehran welfare organization. in this research, participants were asked to answer which of the variables of quality of life and job satisfaction is a strong predictor for anxiety. the population of the study consisted of all female employees in tehran ...

AIMS To test whether (1) physically demanding work is less frequent for older than younger employees, and whether (2) the association of physically demanding work with decline of physical functioning is stronger for older employees than their younger counterparts. The gender differences in these associations were examined. METHODS Subjects of the study were 40-60 year old employees of the Cit...

Based on five studies with a total of 993 married, heterosexual male participants, we found that marriage structure has important implications for attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors related to gender among heterosexual married men in the workplace. Specifically, men in traditional marriages—married to women who are not employed—disfavor women in the workplace and are more likely than the average...

BACKGROUND Adult vaccination status may be difficult to obtain, often requiring providers to rely on individual patient recall. To determine vaccination status awareness and the sociodemographic predictors of awareness for tetanus, hepatitis A and B, tick born encephalitis (TBE) and influenza vaccination. METHODS Multivariate analyses were used to evaluate a questionnaire survey of 10,321 emp...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine gender differences in minor morbidity among men and women working in similar circumstances, and to test whether the relation between reported working conditions and health is similar for men and women. DESIGN Multivariate analysis of data collected from a postal questionnaire distributed to full time employees in white collar jobs within a single organisation. SET...

This project proposal addresses whether reorganizations in the specialist health care services result in exclusion from the labour market among the employees, and if so, what characterises the groups that are most severely affected? Special attention will be paid to groups with low socioeconomic status, lowand unskilled employees, women, non-western immigrants and people with a record of sickness.