Over the past two decades huge changes have taken place in the structure of the labour
market in the UK and other industrialized countries. Four factors in particular have …

Objective : To assess the effect of anticipating job change or non-employment on self
reported health status in a group of middle aged male and female white collar civil servants. …

Since August 1988 an increasing proportion of the executive functions of government in the
United Kingdom have been devolved to executive agencies. Transfer to an executive …

Study Objectives: Although sleep curtailment has become widespread in industrialised
societies, little work has examined the effects on mortality of change in sleep duration. We …

Background Published work assessing psychosocial stress (job strain) as a risk factor for
coronary heart disease is inconsistent and subject to publication bias and reverse causation …

This paper examines the potential of demographic, personal, material and behavioural
characteristics, other psychosocial features of the work environment and job satisfaction to …

Objectives To estimate 10 year decline in cognitive function from longitudinal data in a middle
aged cohort and to examine whether age cohorts can be compared with cross sectional …

Background Long working hours might increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, but
prospective evidence is scarce, imprecise, and mostly limited to coronary heart disease. We …

Aim: To compare self-reported sickness absence days in the last 12 months with recorded
absences from the employers’ registers for the same period. Methods: Self-reported sickness …

BackgroundStudies of diet and depression have focused primarily on individual nutrients.AimsTo
examine the association between dietary patterns and depression using an overall diet …