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| Lyndall StrazdinsSummaryAffiliation: Australian National University Country: Australia Publications
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The impact of employee level and work stress on mental health and GP service use: an analysis of a sample of Australian government employeesRuth A Parslow
Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University ACTON ACT 0200 Australia
BMC Public Health 4:41. 2004..This study sought to identify the extent to which employee level and work stressors were associated with mental health problems experienced by Australian government employees, and with their use of primary care services...
Too busy: why time is a health and environmental problemLyndall Strazdins
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University
N S W Public Health Bull 18:219-21. 2007..However, where they increase time demands they may have unanticipated health costs, create disincentives for the uptake of interventions and disadvantage those who are most time poor...
Job quality and inequality: parents' jobs and children's emotional and behavioural difficultiesLyndall Strazdins
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Soc Sci Med 70:2052-60. 2010..Thus job quality may be another mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality. Our findings also support the argument that a truly family-friendly job must not erode children's health...- Could better jobs improve mental health? A prospective study of change in work conditions and mental health in mid-aged adultsLyndall Strazdins
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 65:529-34. 2011..To investigate the extent improvement or deterioration in employee job security, control or workload is associated with a change in mental health... - Impact of saliva collection methods on sIgA and cortisol assays and acceptability to participantsLyndall Strazdins
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra
J Immunol Methods 307:167-71. 2005..Cotton-cellulose eyespears could offer methodological advantages for collecting saliva to measure cortisol and sIgA levels, and, because they can be held during sampling, may be useful for research with children and the frail elderly... - Time limits? Reflecting and responding to time barriers for healthy, active living in AustraliaLyndall Strazdins
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Health Promot Int 26:46-54. 2011..Time-sensitive health and active transport interventions are needed, and the methods and approaches we describe could serve as useful, preliminary models... - Job strain, job insecurity, and health: rethinking the relationshipLyndall Strazdins
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
J Occup Health Psychol 9:296-305. 2004..97, CI 1.72-9.16; and poor self-rated health: OR 7.12, CI 2.81-18.01). Job strain and insecurity showed synergistic associations with health, and employees experiencing both could be at heightened health risk... - Around-the-clock: parent work schedules and children's well-being in a 24-h economyLyndall Strazdins
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Soc Sci Med 59:1517-27. 2004..The findings raise questions about the implications for children of the 24-h economy... - Women, work and musculoskeletal healthLyndall Strazdins
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, ACT 0200, Canberra, Australia
Soc Sci Med 58:997-1005. 2004..The sex-segregation of women into sedentary, repetitive and routine work, and the persisting gender imbalance in domestic work are interlinking factors that explain gender differences in musculoskeletal disorders... - Work demands, job insecurity and sickness absence from work. how productive is the new, flexible labour force?Rennie M D'Souza
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Aust N Z J Public Health 30:205-12. 2006..We further investigate if having control at work modifies these associations... - Psychosocial job adversity and health in Australia: analysis of data from the HILDA SurveyPeter Butterworth
Centre for Mental Health Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Aust N Z J Public Health 35:564-71. 2011..This study examines measures of psychosocial job quality developed from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, and reports on associations with physical and mental health... - The health effects of jobs: status, working conditions, or both?Rennie M D'Souza
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Canberra
Aust N Z J Public Health 29:222-8. 2005..This study investigates whether the association of job strain and insecurity with health differs by status... - Communication and behavioural disorders among children with hearing loss increases risk of mental health disordersAnthony Hogan
School of Sociology, The Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Aust N Z J Public Health 35:377-83. 2011..This study examines the mental health and associated risk factors of children with hearing loss... 
The limitations of employment as a tool for social inclusionLiana S Leach
Centre for Mental Health Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia
BMC Public Health 10:621. 2010..This study investigates how poor health status might act as a barrier to gaining good quality work, and how good quality work is an important pre-requisite for positive health outcomes...- Oral Health-Related Quality of Life among a large national cohort of 87,134 Thai adultsVasoontara Yiengprugsawan
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Health Qual Life Outcomes 9:42. 2011..To address this knowledge gap for Thailand, we report oral health findings from a national cohort of 87,134 Thai adults aged between 15 and 87 years and residing all over the country... - The lesser evil: bad jobs or unemployment? A survey of mid-aged AustraliansDorothy H Broom
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Canberra, Australian National University, ACT
Soc Sci Med 63:575-86. 2006..Thus, workplace and industrial relations policies that diminish worker autonomy and security may generate short-term economic gains, but place longer-term burdens on the health of employees and the health-care system... - Cohort profile: The Thai Cohort of 87,134 Open University studentsAdrian C Sleigh
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Int J Epidemiol 37:266-72. 2008 - The health of the Australian workforce: 1998-2001Rosemary J Korda
Aust N Z J Public Health 26:325-31. 2002..They are also the most likely to present to work unwell. With employment conditions rapidly changing, better understanding of the impact of these changes on workers' health is vital...