@article{ref1,
title="Extended working hours and health",
journal="Chronobiology international",
year="2006",
author="Raediker, Britta and Janssen, Daniela and Schomann, Carsten and Nachreiner, Friedhelm",
volume="23",
number="6",
pages="1305-1316",
abstract="Statistical analyses of the relation between the amount of working hours and impairments to health, based on data from a European survey on working conditions in 2000, clearly reveal that there is a substantial correlation between the number of working hours per week and the frequencies of health complaints. This applies to both musculo-skeletal disorders as well as to psycho-vegetative complaints. The relationship of the duration of the exposure to working conditions to health impairments is moderated by a great number of individual (e.g., age) and situational (e.g., shift-work) variables, showing additive or interactive effects for which selected examples have been presented. In general, however, there is a consistent functional relationship between the number or working hours and their effects on the workers that holds over a great variety of conditions. It is argued that requests for extending working hours should thus be handled with care.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0742-0528",
doi="10.1080/07420520601096245",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07420520601096245"
}