Associations between Hours Worked, Symptoms and Health Resource Utilization among Full-time Male Japanese Workers

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作者
Sato, Keiko
Yamazaki, Shin
Hayashino, Yasuaki
Takegami, Misa
Tokuda, Yasuharu [2 ]
Takahashi, Osamu [3 ]
Shimbo, Takuro
Hinohara, Shigeaki [3 ]
Fukui, Tsuguya [3 ]
Fukuhara, Shunichi [1 ]
机构
[1] Kyoto Univ, Grad Sch Med & Publ Hlth, Dept Epidemiol & Hlth Care Res, Sakyo Ku, Kyoto 6068501, Japan
[2] Tsukuba Univ Hosp, Mito Med Ctr, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
[3] St Lukes Int Hosp, St Lukes Life Sci Inst, Ctr Clin Epidemiol, Tokyo, Japan
关键词
Health services accessibility; Occupational health; Signs and symptoms; LONG WORKING HOURS; OVER-THE-COUNTER; ADVERSE EVENTS; PREVALENCE; WORKHOURS; MIGRAINE; RISK; HYPERTENSION; DEPRESSION; CALIFORNIA;
D O I
10.1539/joh.10-0039-OA
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R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
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1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
Associations between Hours Worked, Symptoms and Health Resource Utilization among Full-time Male Japanese Workers: Keiko SATO, et al. Department of Epidemiology and Health Care Research, Graduate School of Medicine and Public Health, Kyoto University Objectives: To investigate the association between hours worked, symptoms experienced, and health resource utilization. Methods: Data were collected from a nationally representative sample of households in Japan. We studied full-time male workers aged 18-65 yr who worked 100 h or more per month. First, we examined the association between hours worked and symptoms experienced. Second, we examined the association between hours worked and the type of health resource utilized, such as physician visits, over-the-counter (OTC) medication use, dietary supplement use, and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) provider visits. We used a multivariable negative binominal model in each analysis. Results: Of the 762 male workers, 598 reported experiencing symptoms at least once a month. We categorized participants based on the number of hours worked per month (h/mo): 100-200 h/mo, 201-250 h/mo, and over 250 h/mo. Compared with those working 201-250 h/mo, those working 100-200 h/mo had more frequent physician visits (rate ratio:1.67, 95% Cl: 1.17 to 2.38) and those working over 250 h/mo had significantly lower rates of CAM provider visits and tended to use dietary supplements for symptoms. Participants who worked 201-250 h/mo used OTC medication most frequently. No significant association was observed between the number of hours worked and number of symptoms experienced. Conclusions: The more hours worked by full-time male workers, the more likely they were to use health resources that had a lower time requirement. Greater attention should be paid to patterns of health resource utilization among workers and their consequent influence on long-term health status. (J Occup Health 2011; 53: 197-204)
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