Occupational Sources of Stress: A Review of the Literature Relating to Coronary Heart Disease and Mental Ill Health

Cary L. Cooper and Judi Marshall

Chapter 1 in From Stress to Wellbeing Volume 1, 2013, pp 3-23 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Felton & Cole (1963) estimate that all cardiovascular diseases accounted for 12 per cent of the time lost by the ‘working population’ in the US, for a total economic loss of about $4 billion in a single year. A report (1969) by the Department of Health and Social Security in the UK shows, as Aldridge (1970) indicates, that the sum of incapacity for men suffering from mental, psychoneurotic and personality disorders, nervousness, debility and migraine headache accounted for 22·8 million work days lost in 1968 alone (second only to bronchitis in the league table of illness and lost working days). Coronary heart disease and mental ill health together, therefore, represent a serious cost for industry both in human and financial terms.

Keywords: Coronary Heart Disease; Role Conflict; Occupational Stress; Status Congruency; Role Ambiguity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137310651_1

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