Mika Kivimäki
Biographic Data
| ID | 346759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mika Kivimäki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mika |
| FAMILY NAME | Kivimäki |
| SIGNATURE | KIVIMÄKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Finnish Institute of Occupational Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4699-5627 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 212 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 512 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 212 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Pre-pregnancy and gestational cardiometabolic disorders and risk of preterm birth and infant mortality
Background: Cardiometabolic disorders (CMDs) are common in pregnancy and can harm the offspring's health. While prior studies have explored clustered cardiometabolic risks in pregnancy, most have focused on a limited number of conditions or a single period. We aimed to examine the associations of individual, multiple, and separate and combined patterns of six pre-pregnancy and gestational CMDs with preterm birth and infant mortality. Methods: Usi…
Changes in food habits during the transition to retirement: The Whitehall II cohort study
BACKGROUND: The transition to retirement is a significant turning point in life, which may lead to changes in food habits. OBJECTIVE: To examine changes in red meat, fish, vegetables and fruit consumption during the retirement transition and whether these changes vary between sociodemographic groups. METHODS: The data were from the Whitehall II study, a cohort of 10 308 British civil servants aged 35-55 years at study induction (1985-1988). Data …
Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: A compr…
BACKGROUND: Estimates of demographic metrics are crucial to assess levels and trends of population health outcomes. The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations worldwide has underscored the need for timely estimates to understand this unprecedented event within the context of long-term population health trends. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 provides new demographic estimates for 204 cou…
Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
BACKGROUND: Disorders affecting the nervous system are diverse and include neurodevelopmental disorders, late-life neurodegeneration, and newly emergent conditions, such as cognitive impairment following COVID-19. Previous publications from the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor Study estimated the burden of 15 neurological conditions in 2015 and 2016, but these analyses did not include neurodevelopmental disorders, as defined by…
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 Report of the Lancet standing Commission
Covid-19 infection and later risk of sickness absence by socioeconomic status: A cohort study
Employees who reported contracting first-wave COVID-19 infection had higher rates of sickness absence in the following year. This excess risk was most consistently observed in employees with intermediate socioeconomic status (e.g. office workers, registered nurses, and social workers)
Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
BACKGROUND: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of type 1 and type 2 diabetes…
Nurse Staffing Level, Length of Work Experience, and Risk of Health Care–Associated Infections Among Hospital Patients: A Prospective Record Linkage Study
BACKGROUND: Nurse understaffing may have several adverse consequences for patients in hospitals, such as health care-associated infections (HAIs), but there is little longitudinal evidence available on staffing levels and HAIs with consideration of incubation times to confirm this. Using daily longitudinal data, we analyzed temporal associations between nurse understaffing and limited work experience, and the risk of HAIs. METHODS: The study was …
Effectiveness of a workshop-based intervention to reduce bullying and violence at work: A 2-year quasi-experimental intervention study
No intervention effects on bullying and violence at work were observed. It may be worthwhile to develop the intervention further to focus more on supervisor and co-worker relationships and on psychosocial resources of work team
Prediction of bullying at work: A data-driven analysis of the Finnish public sector cohort study
While many bivariate associations between socioeconomic characteristics, work characteristics, leadership, team climate, and job satisfaction were observed, reliable individualized detection of individuals at risk of becoming bullied at workplace was not successful. The predictive performance of the developed risk scores was suboptimal, and we do not recommend their use as an individual-level risk prediction tool. However, they might be useful to…
Estimation of the global prevalence of dementia in 2019 and forecasted prevalence in 2050: An analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
BACKGROUND: Given the projected trends in population ageing and population growth, the number of people with dementia is expected to increase. In addition, strong evidence has emerged supporting the importance of potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia. Characterising the distribution and magnitude of anticipated growth is crucial for public health planning and resource prioritisation. This study aimed to improve on previous forecasts of…
Population-level risks of alcohol consumption by amount, geography, age, sex, and year: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020
BACKGROUND: The health risks associated with moderate alcohol consumption continue to be debated. Small amounts of alcohol might lower the risk of some health outcomes but increase the risk of others, suggesting that the overall risk depends, in part, on background disease rates, which vary by region, age, sex, and year. METHODS: For this analysis, we constructed burden-weighted dose-response relative risk curves across 22 health outcomes to esti…
Concurrent trajectories of self-rated health and working hour patterns in health care shift workers: A longitudinal analysis with 8-year follow-up
Background: The association between health and working hours is hypothesized to be reciprocal, but few longitudinal studies have examined changes in both health and working hour patterns over time. We examined combined trajectories of self-related health and two working hour patterns (working <35 h/week and working night shifts) and the extent to which these trajectories were predicted by employees' lifestyle and mental health. Methods: Participa…
Association between alexithymia and substance use: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
Alexithymia has been associated with substance use, but the magnitude of the association has not been evaluated and sub‐group differences, if any, are unknown. The aim of this meta‐analysis is to systematically review the association between alexithymia and substance use (alcohol or illicit drugs). We identified studies through a systematic review of PubMed and Web of Science and obtained a total of 52 publications using the Toronto Alexithymia S…
Clustering of social disadvantage with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder in young adults: A register‐based study in Sweden
The clustering of social disadvantage with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in young adulthood is not well understood. We examined the clustering of ADHD with low educational attainment and unemployment in young adulthood; whether such clustering is stronger when unemployment is prolonged; and whether further clustering of disability pensioning, low education and unemployment occurs among those with ADHD. Data were obtained from Sw…
Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis from the Global Burd…
BACKGROUND: Ending the global tobacco epidemic is a defining challenge in global health. Timely and comprehensive estimates of the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden are needed to guide tobacco control efforts nationally and globally. METHODS: We estimated the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden for 204 countries and territories, by age and sex, from 1990 to 2019 as part of the Global B…
Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
BACKGROUND: Regularly updated data on stroke and its pathological types, including data on their incidence, prevalence, mortality, disability, risk factors, and epidemiological trends, are important for evidence-based stroke care planning and resource allocation. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) aims to provide a standardised and comprehensive measurement of these metrics at global, regional, and national leve…
Alternative duty work as workplace-initiated procedure to reduce sickness absence
This follow-up suggests that implementing an alternative duty work policy may marginally decrease employees' sickness absences
Trajectories of Worktime Control From Midlife to Retirement and Working Beyond Retirement Age
The extent to which long-term individual-oriented flexibility in working hours is associated with working beyond retirement age is not known. The aims of the present study were to identify trajectories of worktime control (WTC) and to examine whether the membership of WTC trajectories was associated with working beyond individual’s pensionable age. A total of 1,953 older employees participated in the study and had data up to 16 years before pensi…
Adverse childhood experiences and adult health: The need for stronger study designs to evaluate impact
Early life is regarded as a crucial period of neurobiological, emotional, social and physical development in all animal species and may have long-term implications for health across the life course. The first studies examining the preadult origins of chronic disease were probably published more than 50 years ago and based on rodent models.1 By briefly administering a suboptimal diet to newborn mice, Dubos and others1 demonstrated a marked impact …
Trajectories of work ability from mid-life to pensionable age and their association with retirement timing
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to identify the trajectories of work ability over 16 years preceding the individual pensionable age and to examine the association with retirement timing. METHODS: The study population consisted of 2612 public sector employees from the Finnish Retirement and Aging study and the Finnish Public Sector study. Participants were grouped into 'no-extension' (retired at the individual pensionable date or worked no longer tha…
Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (Hale), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: A comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global …
BACKGROUND: Accurate and up-to-date assessment of demographic metrics is crucial for understanding a wide range of social, economic, and public health issues that affect populations worldwide. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 produced updated and comprehensive demographic assessments of the key indicators of fertility, mortality, migration, and population for 204 countries and territories and selected sub…
Association between socioeconomic status and the development of mental and physical health conditions in adulthood: A multi-cohort study
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic disadvantage is a risk factor for many diseases. We characterised cascades of these conditions by using a data-driven approach to examine the association between socioeconomic status and temporal sequences in the development of 56 common diseases and health conditions. METHODS: In this multi-cohort study, we used data from two Finnish prospective cohort studies: the Health and Social Support study and the Finnish Public …
Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), principally ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, are the leading cause of global mortality and a major contributor to disability. This paper reviews the magnitude of total CVD burden, including 13 underlying causes of cardiovascular death and 9 related risk factors, using estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019. GBD, an ongoing multinational collaboration to provide comparable and consisten…
Organizational Justice: Evidence of a New Psychosocial Predictor of Health
Objectives. This study examined the justice of decision-making procedures and interpersonal relations as a psychosocial predictor of health. Methods. Regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between levels of perceived justice and self-rated health, minor psychiatric disorders, and recorded absences due to sickness in a cohort of 506 male and 3570 female hospital employees aged 19 to 63 years. Results. The odds ratios of poor sel…
When It Is Better to Give Than to Receive: Long-Term Health Effects of Perceived Reciprocity in Support Exchange
The authors examined esteem enhancement theory and equity theory in explaining the long-term health status of men (n = 178) and women (n = 575). Baseline characteristics were measured in 1990-1993, intimate reciprocity in 1993, and recorded sickness absences for a 9-year period during 1993-2001. Among women, giving more support than receiving in intimate relationships positively affected subsequent health status, as indicated by fewer sickness ab…
Effect of change in the psychosocial work environment on sickness absence: A seven year follow up of initially healthy employees
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of changes in psychosocial work environment on subsequent sickness absence. DESIGN: Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected in three time periods: 1990-1991, before the recession; 1993, worst slump during the recession; and 1993-1997, a period after changes. SETTING: Raisio, a town in south western Finland, during and after a period of economic decline. PARTICIPANTS: 530 municipal e…
Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans
Unfairness and health: Evidence from the Whitehall II Study
Objective: To examine the effects of unfairness on incident coronary events and health functioning. Design: Prospective cohort study. Unfairness, sociodemographics, established coronary risk factors (high serum cholesterol, hypertension, obesity, exercise, smoking and alcohol consumption) and other psychosocial work characteristics (job strain, effort–reward imbalance and organisational justice) were measured at baseline. Associations between unf…
Sense of coherence and health: Evidence From Two Cross-Lagged Longitudinal Samples
Working While Ill as a Risk Factor for Serious Coronary Events: The Whitehall II Study
Objectives. Although sick, some people take no time off work, a phenomenon called “sickness presenteeism.” This study examined the association between sickness presenteeism and incidence of serious coronary events. Methods. The analyses were based on a cohort of 5071 male British civil servants without previous myocardial infarction. Baseline screening included measurements of health status and coronary risk factors. Absence records were assessed…
Social capital at work as a predictor of employee health: Multilevel evidence from work units in Finland
Average household income, crime, and smoking behaviour in a local area: The Finnish 10-Town study
Psychosocial work characteristics and incidence of newly diagnosed depression: A Prospective Cohort Study of Three Different Models
Socioeconomic Position, Co-Occurrence of Behavior-Related Risk Factors, and Coronary Heart Disease: The Finnish Public Sector Study
Objectives. We examined the associations between socioeconomic position, co-occurrence of behavior-related risk factors, and the effect of these factors on the relative and absolute socioeconomic gradients in coronary heart disease. Methods. We obtained the socioeconomic position of 9337 men and 39 255 women who were local government employees aged 17–65 years from employers’ records (the Public Sector Study, Finland). A questionnaire survey in 2…
Work stress, smoking status, and smoking intensity: An observational study of 46 190 employees
Study objective: To examine the relation between work stress, as indicated by the job strain model, and the effort-reward imbalance model, and smoking. Setting: Ten municipalities and 21 hospitals in Finland. Design and participants: Binary logistic regression models for the prevalence of smoking were related to survey responses of 37 309 female and 8881 male Finnish public sector employees aged 17–65. Separate multinomial logistic regression mod…
Job decision latitude, organizational justice and health: Multilevel Covariance Structure Analysis
Socioeconomic status and the development of depressive symptoms from childhood to adulthood: A longitudinal analysis across 27 years of follow-up in the Young Finns study
Sickness absence as a risk marker of future disability pension: The 10-town study: Table 1
Un reconocido factor de competitividad son las personas; así hoy día se habla de capital intelectual, capital humano, potencial humano, talento humano todos referidos al papel que tiene el hombre en la organización. En la evolución histórica de la gestión empresarial se le ha asignado un determinado papel dentro de este sistema, y de forma explícita o implícita ha sido siempre el elemento fundamental en el desarrollo de las diferentes actividades…
Prospective study of workplace social capital and depression: Are vertical and horizontal components equally important
BACKGROUND: Recent studies have emphasised the multidimensional nature of the social capital concept, but it is not known whether the health effects of social capital vary by dimension. The objective of this study was to examine the vertical component (ie, respectful and trusting relationships across power differentials at work) and the horizontal component of workplace social capital (trust and reciprocity between employees at the same hierarchi…
Diagnosis-specific sickness absence and all-cause mortality in the Gazel study
BACKGROUND: This study aims to examine diagnosis-specific sickness absence as a risk marker for all-cause mortality. METHODS: Prospective occupational cohort (the GAZEL study). Medically certified sickness absence spells >7 days for 15 diagnostic categories, 1990-1992, were examined in relation to all-cause mortality, January 1993-February 2007. The reference group for each diagnostic category was participants with no spell >7 days for that diagn…
Personality and having children: A two-way relationship
Personality has been implicated in romantic and sexual relationships, but its association with childbearing is poorly understood. The authors assessed whether 3 personality traits--sociability, emotionality, and activity--predicted the probability of having children and whether having children predicted personality change. The participants were women and men from the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study (N = 1,839) who were followed for 9 yea…
Organisational justice and change in justice as predictors of employee health: The Whitehall II study
Objective: Organisational justice has been proposed as a new way to examine the impact of psychosocial work environment on employee health. This article studied the justice of interpersonal treatment by supervisors (the relational component of organisational justice) as a predictor of health. Design: Prospective cohort study. Phase 1 (1985–88) measured relational justice, job demands, job control, social support at work, effort-reward imbalance, …
Childhood adversities as a predictor of disability retirement
Background: There is a large body of research on adulthood risk factors for retirement due to disability, but studies on the effect of adverse childhood experiences are scarce. Aim: To examine whether adverse childhood experiences predict disability retirement. Methods: Data were derived from the Health and Social Support Study. The information was gathered from postal surveys in 1998 (baseline) and in 2003 (follow-up questionnaire). The analysed…
Organisational downsizing and increased use of psychotropic drugs among employees who remain in employment
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 units but kept their jobs after downsizing in 1993, 42…
Social capital in working life and the health of employees
Human Costs of Organizational Downsizing: Comparing Health Trends Between Leavers and Stayers
We studied health‐related selection and consequences of an organizational downsizing among 886 municipal employees. Measurements of health indicators were conducted before any rumor of the downsizing and immediately after the downsizing 3 years later. Results of predownsizing health showed that those who did not find employment after the staff reductions were older employees with high preexisting morbidity. Those getting a new job elsewhere were …
Combined effects of uncertainty and organizational justice on employee health: Testing the uncertainty management model of fairness judgments among Finnish public sector employees
Workplace as an origin of health inequalities
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of the workplace on the socioeconomic gradient of sickness absence. DESIGN: Comparison of the relation between socioeconomic status and employee sickness absence in three different towns. SETTINGS: The towns of Raisio, Valkeakoski, and Nokia in Finland. They are equal in size and regional social deprivation indices, located in the neighbourhood of a larger city, and produce the same services to the inhabitants…
Components of Type a Behavior Pattern and Occupational Stressor-Strain Relationship: Testing Different Models in a Sample of Industrial Managers
The authors analyzed empirically the roles of impatience-irritability and ambition-energy components of the Type A behavior pattern (TABP) in the occupational stressor-strain relationship. They tested three models, using a sample of 659 industrial managers to determine whether the TABP components affected strain independently from perceived stressors (the direct effects model); or indirectly, by moderating effects of perceived stressors (the mode…
Effect of organisational downsizing on health of employees
Sense of Coherence as a Modifier of Occupational Stress Exposure, Stress Perception, and Experienced Strain: A Study of Industrial Managers
750 male industrial managers participated in a survey specifying the role of sense of coherence in occupational stress. A strong sense of coherence buffered from strain almost independently of respondents' age, exposure to stressors, or perceived stressors; however, a strong sense of coherence was slightly related to the selection of individuals into jobs characterized by relatively low exposure to such stressors as lack of control and role ambig…
Sense of Coherence as a Modifier of Occupational Stress Exposure, Stress Perception, and Experienced Strain: A Study of Industrial Managers
Workplace as an origin of health inequalities
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of the workplace on the socioeconomic gradient of sickness absence. DESIGN: Comparison of the relation between socioeconomic status and employee sickness absence in three different towns. SETTINGS: The towns of Raisio, Valkeakoski, and Nokia in Finland. They are equal in size and regional social deprivation indices, located in the neighbourhood of a larger city, and produce the same services to the inhabitants…
Factors underlying the effect of organisational downsizing on health of employees: Longitudinal cohort study
OBJECTIVE: To explore the underlying mechanisms between organisational downsizing and deterioration of health of employees. DESIGN: Longitudinal cohort study. Data were assembled from before downsizing (time 1); during major downsizing affecting some job categories (time 2); and after downsizing (time 3). Contributions of changes in work, support, and health related behaviours between time 1 and time 2 to the relation between downsizing and sickn…
Sense of coherence and social support – Resources for subjective well‐being and health of the aged in Finland
In this study we explored if the psychological and social resources of aged people (over 75 years) in Finland predict their subjective well‐being and experienced state of health (n = 348). Data were taken from a larger Finnish survey on living conditions. Based on previous research on younger people we formed a model where morbidity, experienced quality of social support and sense of coherence together with economic resources are the predictors o…
Effect of change in the psychosocial work environment on sickness absence: A seven year follow up of initially healthy employees
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of changes in psychosocial work environment on subsequent sickness absence. DESIGN: Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected in three time periods: 1990-1991, before the recession; 1993, worst slump during the recession; and 1993-1997, a period after changes. SETTING: Raisio, a town in south western Finland, during and after a period of economic decline. PARTICIPANTS: 530 municipal e…
Sense of coherence and health: Evidence From Two Cross-Lagged Longitudinal Samples
Work stress and risk of cardiovascular mortality: Prospective cohort study of industrial employees
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between work stress, according to the job strain model and the effort-reward imbalance model, and the risk of death from cardiovascular disease. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. Baseline examination in 1973 determined cases of cardiovascular disease, behavioural and biological risks, and stressful characteristics of work. Biological risks were measured at 5 year and 10 year follow up. SETTING: Staff of a com…
Death or Illness of a Family Member, Violence, Interpersonal Conflict, and Financial Difficulties as Predictors of Sickness Absence: Longitudinal Cohort Study on Psychological and Behavioral Links
Objective Although an association between stressful life events and health problems has been demonstrated, the underlying mechanisms have remained unclear. We examined whether psychological problems and health-risk behaviors underpin the health effects of different event categories. Method The initially healthy participants were 2991 (796 men, 2195 women) municipal employees who had taken no sick leave in 1995. In 1997, they completed a questionn…
Death or Illness of a Family Member, Violence, Interpersonal Conflict, and Financial Difficulties as Predictors of Sickness Absence: Longitudinal Cohort Study on Psychological and Behavioral Links
OBJECTIVE: Although an association between stressful life events and health problems has been demonstrated, the underlying mechanisms have remained unclear. We examined whether psychological problems and health-risk behaviors underpin the health effects of different event categories. METHOD: The initially healthy participants were 2991 (796 men, 2195 women) municipal employees who had taken no sick leave in 1995. In 1997, they completed a questio…
Organizational Justice: Evidence of a New Psychosocial Predictor of Health
Objectives. This study examined the justice of decision-making procedures and interpersonal relations as a psychosocial predictor of health. Methods. Regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between levels of perceived justice and self-rated health, minor psychiatric disorders, and recorded absences due to sickness in a cohort of 506 male and 3570 female hospital employees aged 19 to 63 years. Results. The odds ratios of poor sel…
Sickness absence as a global measure of health: Evidence from mortality in the Whitehall II prospective cohort study
Objective To examine the association between sickness absence and mortality compared with associations between established health indicators and mortality. Design Prospective cohort study. Medical examination and questionnaire survey conducted in 1985-8; sickness absence records covered the period 1985-98. Setting 20 civil service departments in London. Participants 6895 male and 3413 female civil servants aged 35-55 years. Main outcome measure A…
Association Between the Type 4 Dopamine Receptor Gene Polymorphism and Novelty Seeking
OBJECTIVE: Mixed results have been reported on the association between the type 4 dopamine receptor gene (DRD4) and the temperament dimension of novelty seeking. We tested this association by specifying the analysis to components of novelty seeking. METHODS: Participants were 150 high and low novelty-seeking scorers (the highest and lowest 10%) from a randomized, population-based sample of Finnish citizens in six age cohorts. We genotyped a 48-bp…
Human Costs of Organizational Downsizing: Comparing Health Trends Between Leavers and Stayers
We studied health‐related selection and consequences of an organizational downsizing among 886 municipal employees. Measurements of health indicators were conducted before any rumor of the downsizing and immediately after the downsizing 3 years later. Results of predownsizing health showed that those who did not find employment after the staff reductions were older employees with high preexisting morbidity. Those getting a new job elsewhere were …
Job decision latitude, organizational justice and health: Multilevel Covariance Structure Analysis
Hostility, unemployment and health status: Testing Three Theoretical Models
Contribution of Early and Adult Factors to Socioeconomic Variation in Blood Pressure: Thirty-Four–Year Follow-up Study of School Children
OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the role of cognitive processing in maternal adjustment to a life-threatening pediatric medical procedure (bone marrow/stem cell transplantation: BMT/SCT). METHODS: Ninety-one mothers participated in structured interviews about their fears, intrusions, avoidance, and distress regarding their child's BMT/SCT at two time points: during their child's hospitalization and during his/her recovery. Structural equation …
Contribution of Early and Adult Factors to Socioeconomic Variation in Blood Pressure: Thirty-Four-Year Follow-up Study of School Children
OBJECTIVE: To prospectively examine the role of childhood and adulthood factors in the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and adult systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP, DBP). METHODS: One hundred and five boys and 101 girls who were 8 years of age at entry into the study were observed for 34 years in the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development, Finland. Data were gathered on educational attainment and…
Is Underutilization of Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities a Major Barrier to Innovation
750 employees from 40 small and middle-sized industrial enterprises participated in a study of the extent to which perceived utilization of knowledge, skills, and abilities among personnel is associated with innovative performance. Multiple hierarchical regression analyses, based on structured questionnaire survey and data from organizational and national registers, showed that perceived underutilization of knowledge, skills, and abilities was st…
Organisational justice and change in justice as predictors of employee health: The Whitehall II study
Objective: Organisational justice has been proposed as a new way to examine the impact of psychosocial work environment on employee health. This article studied the justice of interpersonal treatment by supervisors (the relational component of organisational justice) as a predictor of health. Design: Prospective cohort study. Phase 1 (1985–88) measured relational justice, job demands, job control, social support at work, effort-reward imbalance, …
Sickness absence as a risk marker of future disability pension: The 10-town study: Table 1
Un reconocido factor de competitividad son las personas; así hoy día se habla de capital intelectual, capital humano, potencial humano, talento humano todos referidos al papel que tiene el hombre en la organización. En la evolución histórica de la gestión empresarial se le ha asignado un determinado papel dentro de este sistema, y de forma explícita o implícita ha sido siempre el elemento fundamental en el desarrollo de las diferentes actividades…
Economy and job contract as contexts of sickness absence practices: Revisiting Locality and Habitus
Social capital in working life and the health of employees
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