Workplace Report (November 2004)

Health & safety news

Better work can reduce heart attacks

Improving the quality of a person's job can reduce their risk of a heart attack.

Writing in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, researchers from Denmark say they found that those at the bottom of the workplace pecking order had less say over their jobs and how they were done, and also had a higher rate of heart attacks.


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