ReviewScandinavian journal of work, environment & health2024
Fifty years of research on psychosocial working conditions and health: From promise to practice.
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- Effort-reward imbalance at work and health: Review and critical appraisal of three decades of research.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Review
- Algorithmic management and psychosocial risks at work: An emerging occupational safety and health challenge.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Article
- Managing psychosocial hazards in the workplace: how to link frequency and severity using risk matrices.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Work conditions are associated with physical health in later life: a longitudinal cohort study in Taiwan.Innovation in aging · 2026Article
- Health trends among workers in Germany and the role of changing job activities and working conditions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Workplace violence: A complex challenge demanding a systemic response.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2025Article
- The Psychosocial Hierarchy of Controls: Effectively Reducing Psychosocial Hazards at Work.American journal of industrial medicine · 2025Article
- Evidence-based interventions to prevent sick leave: a scoping review of reviews.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Effective management for the duration and quality of working time.Industrial health · 2025Article
- Towards the year 2049: The next 25 years of occupational health and safety research.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2024Review
- When will we have enough evidence to require improvements at the workplace?Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2024Article
- Experiences of psychological, social and organisational work environments in occupational health service in Sweden: a cross-sectional survey.BMC health services research · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis paper presents an overview of 50 years of research on psychosocial working conditions and health with regards to conceptualization, interventions and policy. We reflect on the promise of past and current research on psychosocial working conditions and, in addition, discuss current progress in translating this research into workplace practice and improvements in people's working lives.
methodsWe conducted a narrative review of meta-reviews and key publications on psychosocial working conditions and health. The review covers a historical overview of theories of the past 50 years, measurement of psychosocial working conditions, health effects, intervention research, and policy development on psychosocial working conditions.
resultsPsychosocial working conditions are conceptualized in different ways, with increasing complexity in the understanding developing over time. Exposures related to psychosocial working conditions are associated with a wide range of health outcomes, in particular cardiovascular disease and mental health conditions. In response to growing evidence on associations between psychosocial working conditions and health outcomes, intervention research has expanded rapidly, but for various reasons the evidence base is stronger and more extensive for individual- than organizational-level interventions. This individual/organizational imbalance is reflected in practice, and may partly explain why policy interventions have yet to show reductions in exposures to psychosocial work factors and associated adverse outcomes.
conclusionsPressing needs for advancing the field include improvements in capturing exposure dynamics, developing objective measures of exposure, methodologic advancements to optimize causal inference in etiologic studies, and alternatives to randomized controlled trials for intervention evaluation.
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