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Occup Environ Med 2006;63:297
  • Work in brief

Work in brief

  1. Keith Palmer, Editor

      STRESS IN HUMAN SERVICES WORKERS

      Emotional demands, responsibility, and job complexity feature more in some jobs than others. Wieclaw et al1 studied the risks of affective and stress related illness in health services professionals. Almost 29 000 cases with first hospital attendance for the two mental illnesses were identified from a central psychiatric registry and compared with 145 000 never-admitted matched referents, a 5% sample of the Danish population. Relative risks were raised up to 1.49-fold, being higher in education and social services, especially in men working …

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