Abstract

MARTINEZ ALCANTARA, Susana  and  HERNANDEZ SANCHEZ, Araceli. Need for the study of and legislation on psychosocial factors at work. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2005, vol.31, n.4, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3127.

The study of the psychosocial factors and their impact on the workers has been gaining importance in the last decades. They have close relationship with the way in which work is organized and the most evident manifestations are linked to stress and its effect on the mental health of the workers. According to the European Union reports, depression, chronic anxiety, lack of motivation, sleep disorders and tiredness in addition to some new phenomena such as burnout, mobbing and karoshi are some of the consequences for health together with financial and social losses. In Mexico, the law does not yet consider these psychosocial factors and some others like burnout and mobbing just begin to be studied

Keywords : work; psychosocial factors; stress; legislation; health of the workers.

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