Swept under the office carpet

Swept under the office carpet

Fair employment and work conditions are hardly seen as health determinants

In the wide range of causes that can lead to poor health and disease, the workplace, as a spate of recent studies suggest, is an under-reported but significant factor.

For example, an adverse work environment can cause respiratory infections, vector and parasitic diseases, heart ailments, stroke, mental, behavioural and neurological disorders, becoming over-weight and getting skin diseases, among other medical emergencies. Right to health Stress alone, at work, can manifest itself in the form of extreme fatigue, heart palpitation, excessive sleeping, insomnia, gastrointestinal problems, diarrhoea, constipation and, dermatological […]

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