| Document ID (ISN) | 111042 |
| CIS number |
10-0730 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
1262-4055 - Préventique-Sécurité |
| Year |
2010 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Phan Chan The E. |
| Title |
Night work, sleep disturbances and health |
| Original title |
Travail de nuit, troubles du sommeil et santé [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
Sep.-Oct. 2010, No. 113, p. 88-92. Illus. |
| Abstract |
This article discusses the issue of sleep and health disturbances related to night work, aimed at occupational health professionals. It presents the causes, effects and principles governing the compensation of diseases due to sleep disturbances. Contents: occupational risk factors (mental workload, conditions of work such as noise, heat and strenuousness); diagnostic tools; recognition of insomnia as an occupational disease; effects of night work and examples of recognition of the occupational nature of sleep disturbances. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
occupational medicine; night work; sleep disturbances; health hazards; risk factors |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
France; noise; diagnosis; insomnia; physical workload; mental workload; compensation of occupational diseases |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational physiology
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Physiology, ergonomics
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