The Workplace and Cardiovascular Disease marks the moment when heart disease caused by work becomes a major priority to be tackled by workers and employers.
The medical establishment in the UK is only just recognizing what scientists from Scandinavia, North America, and Michael Marmot in London have been saying for 20 years. Stress at work causes heart disease.
This book describes the evidence, what has been done about it (interventions at work) and what should be done about it (reorganisation of the way we all work).
In this book you will find which jobs carry the highest risk of heart disease and what aspects of work cause it. You will find how to interpret blood pressure measurements and cholesterol levels - familiar parts of healthy living propaganda - for what they can tell you about work.
After reading this book you will know that blood pressure measurements at work tell you as much about what work is doing to your heart as about your lifestyle or family history of heart disease. Employers may find that health screening in company time - a gesture to help workers with their lifestyle problems - backfires on them.
This book lives up to its "State of the Art" label; all the major authors in the field are featured. The evidence here suggests that occupational heart disease may be the largest contribution work makes to death and ill-health.
Persuade your library or union to buy a copy. It is technical in parts, but well worth working at.