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Shift and Night Work

2014
In the “24-h Society” working time organization is a key issue on account of labor market globalization and extension of basic services to the general population. Most workers are engaged in irregular or atypical working hours, including shift and night work, which may have a negative impact on health and well-being, because of the stress from ...
G. Costa, S. Garbarino
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Night shift work

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1984
The deleterious effects of night shift work are discussed in relation to emergency physicians. Much of the early research is drawn from heavy industry sources and must be extrapolated to medical work. Disruption of circadian rhythms and Zeitgebers, caused by adherence to contemporary social schedules, causes recurrent difficulty for physicians who ...
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Health Effects of Shift Work and Night Shift Work

2023
International ...
Guénel, Pascal, Léger, Damien
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Shift Working: the Arrangement of Hours on Night Work

Nature, 1965
PROBLEMS of adaptation to shift-working routines may be increased by physiological disturbance when changing to night work is involved. It has been shown that performance on some kinds of work can be affected by inversion of normal time routines so that output at night is lowest in the early hours of the morning1,2.
G, De la Mare, J, Walker
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Working the night shift

In Practice, 2006
BY 2002, Joanne Leathers had been qualified for several years, and was working in a busy mixed practice. But disillusionment was creeping in: a gruelling work schedule seemed to leave no time for a social life or outside pursuits. She decided a change was needed. Here, she describes her new life working in an out‐of‐hours emergency clinic.
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The impact of shift and night work on health

Applied Ergonomics, 1996
Shift work, in particular night work, can have a negative impact on health and well-being of workers as it can cause: (a) disturbances of the normal circadian rhythms of the psychophysiological functions, beginning with the sleep/wake cycle; (b) interferences with work performance and efficiency over the 24 hour span, with consequent errors and ...
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Night shift dose and stress at work

Ergonomics, 1993
In a new approach to the problem of night work and its consequences, an investigation of the relationships between shift variables, stress at work (environmental and psychosocial aspects), well-being and health, and lifestyle characteristics was carried out, taking into consideration the actual number of remunerated night shifts ('night shift dose ...
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Night Shift Work and Hormone Levels in Women

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 2012
AbstractBackground: Night shift work may disrupt the normal nocturnal rise in melatonin, resulting in increased breast cancer risk, possibly through increased reproductive hormone levels. We investigated whether night shift work is associated with decreased levels of urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin, the primary metabolite of melatonin, and increased ...
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