ArticleInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2019
Night-time work and all-cause mortality in the general working population of Denmark.
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- Night Shift Work Associates with All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Large Prospective Cohort Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- Long working hours and all-cause mortality in China: A 26-year follow-up study.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2023Article
- System dynamics simulation of occupational health and safety management causal model based on NetLogo.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Consequences of Shift Work and Night Work: A Literature Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Effect of Occupational Health and Safety Training for Chinese Construction Workers Based on the CHAID Decision Tree.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Night work, mortality, and the link to occupational group and sex.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2020Article
- Prospective Associations Between Working Time Arrangements and Psychiatric Treatment in Denmark: Protocol for a Cohort Study.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
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purposeA recent study among female nurses in Denmark found an increased mortality among night-time workers, which has raised concerns about the sufficiency of the EU Working Time Directive. The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between night-time work and all-cause mortality among full-time employees in the general workforce of Denmark.
methodsInterview data from the Danish Labour Force Surveys, 1999-2013, were linked to national registers with individual-level data on occupation, industry, socioeconomic status (SES), emigrations and deaths. The participants (N = 159,933) were followed from the end of the calendar year of the interview until the end of 2014. Poisson regression was used to estimate rate ratios for all-cause mortality, with and without stratification by sex and socioeconomic status. A likelihood ratio test was used to test the overall null-hypothesis, which stated that the mortality rates were independent of night-time work, SES × night-time work and sex × night-time work.
resultsThe likelihood ratio test did not reject the null hypothesis (p = 0.14). The rate ratio for all-cause mortality among employees with vs. without night-time work was estimated at 1.07 (95% CI 0.97-1.19) after adjustment for age, sex, SES, calendar time, weekly working hours and time passed since the start of follow-up.
conclusionsThe present study did not find any statistically significant associations between night-time work and all-cause mortality among employees in the general workforce of Denmark.
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