scholarly journals E203 A comparative study on physique and physical fitness between blue-collar and white-collar workers in ralation to lifestyles

1999 ◽  
Vol 41 (Special) ◽  
pp. 497
Author(s):  
S. Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
White Collar Workers

scholarly journals The Impact of Lifetime Work and Non-work Physical Activity on Physical Fitness Among White – and Blue – Collar Retirees: A Cross-Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Trzmiel ◽  
Anna Pieczyńska ◽  
Ewa Zasadzka ◽  
Mariola Pawlaczyk
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Physical Performance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Occupational Activity ◽  
Work Related ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
The Impact

Objective: The literature offers significant amount of data on the effects of occupational activity on health, with a distinct link between retirement and health among the most frequently tackled topics. Studies on the relationship between past occupational activity and physical fitness among older retirees remain scarce. The aim of the study was to assess the effects of physical activity on physical fitness in white- and blue-collar retirees.Methods: A total of 200 participants (aged ≥60) were included in the study. Lifetime physical activity was assessed using the Lifetime Physical Activity Questionnaire. Mean MET/week/year values of total Physical Activity and for each domain separately (occupational, sports, household) were calculated. Participants were stratified to blue- or white- collar group. Physical performance, hand-grip strength (HGS) and pulmonary function were assessed.Results: Mean total MET/week/year values for the blue- and the white-collar workers were 140.48 ± 55.13 and 100.75 ± 35.98, respectively. No statistically significant differences in physical performance scores were found between the white- and blue- collar groups. Adjustment for age, sex weight and height revealed a statistically significant association between work-related PA FEV*1 in the blue-collar group. White – collar workers presented higher odds ratio for membership in highest quartile in regard to short physical performance battery test score.Conclusion: Only minimal association of type of occupation on physical fitness were found despite statistically significant differences between mean intensity and duration of sports- and work-related lifetime physical activity. These findings may indicate that the type of past work is not an independent factor influencing the state of a person in old age. Large-scale investigations with physically fit and unfit participants, are necessary.

Socioeconomic Differences in Patient Survival Are Increasing for Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Multiple Myeloma in Sweden

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 2073-2080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigurdur Yngvi Kristinsson ◽  
Åsa Rangert Derolf ◽  
Gustaf Edgren ◽  
Paul W. Dickman ◽  
Magnus Björkholm
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Myeloma ◽  
Acute Myeloid Leukemia ◽  
Myeloid Leukemia ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Lower Mortality ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Acute Myeloid

Purpose An association between socioeconomic status (SES) and survival in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and multiple myeloma (MM) has not been established in developed countries. We assessed the impact of SES on survival in two large population-based cohorts of AML and MM patients diagnosed in Sweden 1973 to 2005. Patients and Methods The relative risk of death (all cause and cause specific) in relation to SES was estimated using Cox's proportional hazards regression. We also conducted analyses stratified by calendar periods (1973 to 1979, 1980 to 1989, 1990 to 1999, and 2000 to 2005). Results We identified a total of 9,165 and 14,744 patients with AML and MM, respectively. Overall, higher white-collar workers had a lower mortality than other SES groups for both AML (P = .005) and MM (P < .005). In AML patients, a consistently higher overall mortality was observed in blue-collar workers compared with higher white-collar workers in the last three periods (hazard ratio [HR], 1.26; 95% CI, 1.05 to 1.51; HR, 1.23; 95% CI, 1.05 to 1.45; HR, 1.28; 95% CI, 1.04 to 1.57, respectively). In MM, no difference was observed in the first two calendar periods. However, in 1990 to 1999, self-employed (HR, 1.18; 95% CI, 1.02 to 1.37), blue-collar workers (HR, 1.18; 95% CI, 1.04 to 1.32), and retired (HR, 1.45; 95% CI, 1.16 to 1.80) had a higher mortality compared to higher white-collar workers. In 2000 to 2005, blue-collar workers had a higher mortality (HR, 1.31; 95% CI, 1.07 to 1.60) compared with higher white-collar workers. Conclusion SES was significantly associated with survival in both AML and MM. Most conspicuously, a lower mortality was observed among the highest SES group during more recent calendar periods. Differences in management, comorbidity, and lifestyle, are likely factors to explain these findings.

Effects of Social Context on Psychological Responses to Survived Myocardial Infarction

1981 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Myocardial Infarction ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Myocardial Tissue ◽  
Psychological Responses ◽  
Work Efficiency ◽  
The Social ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
Returning To Work

Persons respond in a diversity of ways to the crisis of acute myocardial infarction (MI). The social contexts of 120 survivors of MI was examined to determine whether this influenced such responses, working on the assumption that MI would represent a greater threat to the livelihoods of certain groups of persons than it would for other groups. The most prominent influence was observed for patients' occupation, where persons in so-called blue collar occupations exhibited significantly more anxiety in response to MI than did persons in white collar occupations. It was argued that this arose from the possibility that the nature of blue collar jobs was physical, and that loss of myocardial tissue might be expected to more markedly interfere with their work efficiency (on returning to work) than it would the efficiency of the more sedentary jobs of white collar workers.

Quality of Life Among Lifetime Victimized Men

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquim J.F. Soares ◽  
Eija Viitasara ◽  
Gloria Macassa
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Financial Strain ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Secondary School Education ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
Cross Sectional Design

Quality of life was compared for lifetime victimized (n = 353) and nonvictimized men (n = 167) for demographic and quality of life variables by a cross-sectional design. The univariate analyses showed that victims compared to nonvictims had a lower quality of life, were younger, more often had upper secondary school education, and were more often blue-collar/low white-collar workers, on student allowances, on unemployment, financially strained, and smokers. The regressions revealed that unemployment, financial strain, smoking, depression, and home/public abuse were associated with reduced quality of life among victimized men. Being a blue-collar/low/intermediate white-collar worker and social support were related to increased quality of life. This study may have provided new insights into the experiences of quality of life of victimized men.

scholarly journals Occupational Injuries in Korea: A Comparison of Blue‐Collar and White‐Collar workers' Rates and Underreporting

2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonguk Won ◽  
Yeonsoon Ahn ◽  
Jaesuk Song ◽  
Donghee Koh ◽  
Jaehoon Roh
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
White Collar Workers

What does work mean to your workers?

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 15-17
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Hr Managers ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Talk of blue-collar and white-collar workers will seem faintly outdated for many HR managers. For some, blue-collar workers will conjure up images from the 1970s and 1980s of striking mineworkers, some of the terrible conditions in steel works or in car factories in the pre-robot era. And as for white-collar workers, again this term seems a little anachronistic, albeit it has recently been adopted when referring to computerized “white-collar” crime. And as for pink-collar workers, this surely was left for dead in the 1970s along with bell-bottom flares and male perms. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Advance Notice and Unemployment: New Evidence from the 1988 Displaced Worker Survey

ILR Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 645-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Addison ◽  
Pedro Portugal
Keyword(s):  
White Collar ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
Advance Notice ◽  
Duration Of Unemployment ◽  
Displaced Worker ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Male Workers

This paper examines how advance notice of layoff affects the incidence and duration of unemployment following displacement. The authors use the Displaced Worker Survey for 1988, which, unlike earlier surveys in the series, contains information on written notice. The results are mixed. Longer written notice may more than double the proportion of white-collar workers who move directly to new employment. But written notice has no such positive effects for blue-collar workers, regardless of its length. Informal (unwritten) notice benefits male workers, either by improving their chances of avoiding unemployment (white-collar men) or by reducing the average spell of unemployment (blue-collar men).

Social Class and Changes in Health-Related Habits in Finland in 1973–1983

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seppo Aro ◽  
Leena Räsänen ◽  
Risto Telama
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
Health Related

The aim of this project was to study social class differences with respect to various health-related habits and especially to note the changes in these habits after a 10-year follow-up period. From this study conclusions can be drawn as to whether health education efforts and increased interest in personal health has been more widely adopted by the more educated groups than the less educated groups, whose morbidity and mortality rates are higher. The sample consisted of 902 white-collar and blue-collar workers. Smoking was found to be more common among blue-collar workers in both years. Smoking rates had declined in all groups except female blue-collar workers. Occasions of drinking were more frequent among white-collar than blue-collar workers. However, heavier forms of drinking were more common in male blue-collar than white-collar groups, while the opposite was true among women. Dietary habits in white-collar groups were closer to the “official” recommendations than in the respective blue-collar groups in both years. White-collar men were physically more active at the time of the first investigation, and even more so ten years later. Among women, social class differences were in the same direction, but less marked. In conclusion, in the early 1970s the health-related habits examined were, in most instances, less favourable among blue-collar than white-collar workers. No consistent pattern of change in these habits was observed in the 10-year follow-up. At the end of the follow-up, many of the “inequalities” still persisted.

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