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ArticleSafety and health at work2010

Shift work and health: current problems and preventive actions.

Giovanni Costa

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Article in Safety and health at work, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 140 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

140 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Shift Work and Early Arterial Stiffness: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  9. Evidence of Workplace Interventions-A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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  17. Sleep Quality in Shift-Working Nurses: Subjective and Objective Evaluation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Giovanni CostaDepartment of Occupational Health, University of Milano, IRCCS "Ca'Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico" Foundation, Milan, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The paper gives an overview of the problems to be tackled nowadays by occupational health with regards to shift work as well as the main guidelines at organizational and medical levels on how to protect workers' health and well-being. Working time organization is becoming a key factor on account of new technologies, market globalization, economic competition, and extension of social services to general populations, all of which involve more and more people in continuous assistance and control of work processes over the 24 hours in a day. The large increase of epidemiological and clinical studies on this issue document the severity of this risk factor on human health and well being, at both social and psychophysical levels, starting from a disruption of biological circadian rhythms and sleep/wake cycle and ending in several psychosomatic troubles and disorders, likely also including cancer, and extending to impairment of performance efficiency as well as family and social life. Appropriate interventions on the organization of shift schedules according to ergonomic criteria and careful health surveillance and social support for shift workers are important preventive and corrective measures that allow people to keep working without significant health impairment.

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NightworkOccupational healthShiftworkStressWork organization

Identifiers

PMID22953171
PMCPMC3430894

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