TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - New occupational threats to Japanese physicians: karoshi (death due to overwork) and karojisatsu (suicide due to overwork)
JO  - Occupational and environmental medicine
A1  - Hiyama, T.
A1  - Yoshihara, M.
SP  - 428
EP  - 429
VL  - 65
IS  - 6
N2  - It has been said that the Japanese have a "worker bee" attitude toward matters of employment. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO) report (2004), 28.1% of Japanese employees worked 50 hours or more per week in 2001. This percentage is much higher than in European countries such as the Netherlands (1.4%), Sweden (1.9%), Finland (4.5%) and Germany (5.3%). Physicians are no exception; in fact, they may work more than other types of workers. Japanese physicians worked 66.4 hours per week on average in 2005, according to a report by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) of Japan.    <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1351-0711
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oem.2007.037473
ID  - ref1
ER  -