The work we do affects our health. Certain types of work contain continued dull actions or reduced stages of activity that possibly will lead to muscular problems, strained vision, and other health problems. Even the individual with the tiring and full of activity schedule can make room for physical activity, and having fun. However the foods we eat affect on our health and numerous studies show that good diet and nutrition lowers the risk for many diseases. Moreover, our food habits can actually get on heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes etc or help prevent them. Leisure activities such as reading, playing cards and other activities have likewise been revealed to have a positive effect on health by reducing…
2. The amount of work that must be done every day makes your body exhausted, which makes your health slowly decline.…
One example of disruption of biological rhythms is due to shift work and shift lag. This disrupts your sleeping pattern because it means you are required to be alert at night, so need to sleep during the day. This reverses and disrupts your circadian rhythm, becoming desynchronised where it is no longer entrained by EZ’s. There are many consequences of desynchronisation such as sleep deprivation. Shift workers find it hard to sleep during the day because of the EZ’s such as light and sound disturbances that keep you awake. This means shift workers find it even more difficult to stay awake at night time because they have had a poor quality daytime sleep. This then affects their alertness. Night workers often experience a circadian ‘trough’ of decreased alertness during their shifts. For example Boivin found that cortisol levels are at their lowest between 12 and 4am, which is the primetime a night worker, would be working. This means they have low alertness and decreases the efficiency of their job. There are also many effects on health due to shift work. A significant relationship has been found between shift work and organ disease. For example, Knutsson found that people who worked shift work for more than 15 years were likely to develop heart disease than a non-shift worker. This may be due to the direct effect of desynchronisation in the circadian rhythm.…
People are so interested in their work and they don’t pay attention to their health. These days, people are experiencing sleepiness because of work disorder, anxiety and depression in their life.…
Changing patterns of life, work and leisure have a significant impact on health. Work and leisure should be a source of health for people. The way society organizes work should help create a healthy society. Health promotion generates living and working conditions that are safe, stimulating, satisfying and enjoyable.…
The beauty of life is that it's filled with wonderful experiences and surprises. However it can be, shall we say, challenging? Juggling family, personal and work responsibilities can sometimes take its toll. We may even sacrifice our own needs to the detriment of our health, which can severely impact our work performance. We understand these struggles first hand, and we became motivated to do something about it. At Wellocity, we've designed workplace wellness programs as the perfect tool to help create a better work/life balance amongst your employees.…
Working adults spend a considerable proportion of their life at work and hence work provides an important social setting that greatly influence quality of life…
Based on many studies and research, Workaholism has been diagnosed as an actual disorder. Workaholism creates addicting and compulsive behaviors expressed through physical, biological, psychological, and social actions. They are more focused on working and keeping their than recognition or rising higher than others in their organization. Loyal and hard working people want a sense of security in their job by creating goals, staying successful and having more determination than most workers would. Overworking can lead to exhaustion, sleep problems, anxiety, stress, eating disorders, and even death. Not only can a workaholics life affect the body physically and emotionally, it can affect people around them socially. This creates a lack of boundaries between work and their involvement in family life, marital status, children at home, friends, romantic life, and coworkers. Counseling, medicine, and time away from work can help reduce workaholism.…
* Engaging in obsessive behaviors – workaholism – gambling – sexual excess and acting out…
People everywhere are faced with the unanswered question, “When am I working too much?”, “When do I stop?” Due to the constant increase in our cost of living, people believe they are forced into working longer and more demanding hours. People need to learn how to split their time and energy between work and the other important aspects of their lives. In the two essays, “Hit the Brakes”, by Christopher Dewolf and “Stupid Jobs”, by Hal Neidzviecki, it is shown that spending too many hours on your job, creates less time for a personal life, which creates many problems. Society has become obsessed with the demanding and vastly expanding workplace environment, so much so that quality time spent with self and loved ones, which is crucial to becoming a well rounded person, is often disregarded.…
Understanding how addiction effects the physical and psychological functioning of daily life is a phenomenon that continues to be researched and studied but further studies are needed in order to understand its onset and the impact it has on an individual’s…
Illness, prescription drugs, shift-work, jet lag, and stimulants such as alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine can affect your sleep pattern.…
References: Harris, V.W., Johnson, A.C. Olsen, K.M., (2014). Balancing work and family in the real world. Plymouth. MI: Hayden-McNeil Publishing.…
Sleep disorder are on the rise and the affects millions of people in America. People need sleep to function effectively at work to balance emotional responses. Unfortunately, despite expanding knowledge of the negative effects of sleep lost on our physical and mental well-being, the health care profession has not kept pace with the growing incidence of chronic sleep deprivation. This research review will investigate the effects of sleep deprivation in healthcare worker. Several studies have been completed which examine the effects of working long hours with poor sleep characteristic. What are the impacts of working twelve hour night shifts of healthcare workers versus twelve hour day shift? Sleep lost can lead to attention problems, impaired cognitive risk and errors that put the patients at risk and the challenges of finding a healthy balance between work and personal life.…
The suffix –aholic indicates that the person this term is being used to describe is one who feels compulsively the need to do something or is addicted to something, and workaholics are on the rise. Workaholism is associated with overearning, the tendency to forgo leisure and work beyond one’s needs, and recently research has been studying the question, do people overearn? This research was published in the journal of Psychological Science and has been evaluated for New York Times readers by reporter Matt Richtel in his article “You Can’t Take It With You, But You Still Want More”. Richtel writes an article that helps readers understand the researcher’s methods, results, and the overall purpose of their experiment, but does not completely tell readers the strengths and weaknesses of the research. While Richtel’s article accurately portrays the experiment and its results, it lacks in its criticism of the strengths and weaknesses of the research due to more emphasis on journalism and less emphasis on science.…