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Ageing, working hours and work ability
Ergonomics, 2007The current paper reports the main results of several studies carried out on Italian workers using the work ability index as a complementary tool for workers' periodical health surveillance. The work ability index shows a general decreasing trend over the years, but it changes differently according to working conditions and personal health status.
G. Costa, S. Sartori
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Measuring Work Ability with Its Antecedents: Evaluation of the Work Ability Survey
Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 2017Purpose The revised version of the Work Ability Survey (WAS-R) assesses work ability on several sub-scales at the intersection of personal and organizational capacity, thus adding to the measurement of work ability by integrating the holistic model. It, therefore, improves on two features of the current standard measurement tool of work ability, the ...
Jan-Bennet Voltmer, Jürgen Deller
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Work ability and perceived work stress
International Congress Series, 2005Abstract In this study, work ability was examined in a group of civil and military servants of the Netherlands Army. Work ability was assessed by using the Work Ability Index (WAI); this instrument was developed by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health to monitor aging workers.
Robert G. Goedhard, Willem J.A. Goedhard
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Depression and the Ability to Work
Psychiatric Services, 2004Depression can have a serious impact on a person's ability to work. The purpose of this study was to describe depressed persons who work and depressed persons who do not work and to identify factors related to depressed persons' working.The combined 1994 and 1995 National Health Interview Survey Disability Supplement was used to identify persons aged ...
Lynn, Elinson +3 more
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Promotion of work ability during ageing
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1999The aging of the work force is a global phenomenon. The main reasons for this historical change are (i) the large baby boom generation born in the 1940s-1950s is entering its 50s, and (ii) the subsequent generations have been relatively small. For example, in the European Union (EU) the relative proportion of those aged 50-64 years will be about 27 ...
J, Ilmarinen, J, Rantanen
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Working memory, worry, and algebraic ability
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2014Math anxiety (MA)-working memory (WM) relationships have typically been examined in the context of arithmetic problem solving, and little research has examined the relationship in other math domains (e.g., algebra). Moreover, researchers have tended to examine MA/worry separate from math problem solving activities and have used general WM tasks rather ...
Kelly Trezise, Robert A. Reeve
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Finger amputations and ability to work
Hand, 1974Abstract 1. 1. We have presented 130 patients with a total of 163 amputations and investigated the occupational after-history with examination in detail of twenty-nine patients who changed their jobs permanently. 2. 2. The level of amputation did not appear to be critical provided that the stump was covered by adequate soft tissue and was not
R, Gruneberg, A J, Spence
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Physical ability, fitness and police work
Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine, 1995The objective of this article is to provide an overview of physical ability, fitness and police work. The literature will be reviewed, and the method we have used to develop a tool that measures the physical abilities required for police work will be presented.
J, Bonneau, J, Brown
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