Occupational Stress in Planetary Health: Explaining Multilevel Systems and Effects of Work, Time and Place
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2019) | Viewed by 173
Special Issue Editor
2. CUNY Institute for Implementation Sciences in Population Health, 55 West 125th Street, Fl. 6, New York, NY 10027, USA
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is preparing a Special Issue on occupational stress and human health. For detailed information on the journal, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
Research is emerging that links public health (focused on human populations) to planetary health (the biological product of socioeconomic, political, and ecological activities) with systems science (defining interactions, networks, and feedback loops in causal models for complex exposure–health outcomes).
New evidence points toward worsening human health being a by-product of intensifying disruptions on planetary health, caused by increasing anthropocentric assaults to our ecology and natural systems. This disturbance to multilevel structures spans across broad contextual climactic and geospatial changes down to specific environment–gene interactions. The result is a system in stress, some of which can be measured as an individual (person-level) response.
Human stress is generally defined as “the harmful physical and emotional response caused by an imbalance between the perceived demands and the perceived resources and abilities of individuals to cope with those demands” (International Labour Organization, 2016). In the workplace, occupational stress manifests in physiological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral reactions to aspects of work content, work organization, and work environment (International Labor Organization, ILO, 2016; World Health Organization, WHO, 2004). Health risks associated with workplace stress include emotional exhaustion, depression, musculoskeletal disorders, cardiovascular disease, and hypertensive morbidity. Adverse outcomes often extend beyond the individual worker, to affect family and community health (World Health Organization, WHO, 2007).
The journal is looking for manuscripts that highlight novel approaches and findings to define, analyze, and present the relationship between occupational (workplace) stress and planetary health. Of particular interest is research that models interactions, mediating, and moderating variables, which may be integral to understanding the association.
This Special Issue is open to research that addresses how disruptions in planetary health (e.g., due to climate change or environmental policy) affect occupational stress as a human health outcome. The keywords listed below are examples for some of the possible areas of interest.
Assoc. Prof. Grace Sembajwe
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Effort reward imbalance
- Environmental justice
- Food policy
- Job control
- Job demand
- Job strain
- Long working hours
- Occupational stress
- Planetary health
- Systems science
- Work–family conflict
- Work organization
- Workplace violence
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