A Research Note on the Relationship Between Long Working Hours and Weight Gain for Older Workers in the United States

Mercan, Murat Anil

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“…66 Similar results were noted for older workers based on panel data from the Health and Retirement Study. 72 Here, older employees who worked more than 59 hours per week were 23% more likely to gain weight as compared to those who worked less than 59 hours per week. Hauck and Hollingsworth reported that employment itself is associated with more weight gain and less weight loss among middle-aged women.…”

Section: Impact Of the Workplace On Obesitymentioning

confidence: 84%

Obesity in the Workplace

Yarborough

Brethauer

Burton

et al. 2018

Journal of Occupational &Amp; Environmental Medicine

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Objective To conduct a comprehensive literature review to develop recommendations for managing obesity among workers to improve health outcomes and to explore the impact of obesity on health costs to determine if a case can be made for surgical interventions and insurance coverage. Methods We searched PubMed from 2011–2016, and CINAHL, Scopus, and Cochrane Registry of Clinical Trials for interventions addressing obesity in the workplace. Results A total of 1,419 articles were screened, resulting in 275 articles being included. Several areas were identified that require more research and investigation. Conclusions Our findings support the use of both lifestyle modification and bariatric surgery to assist appropriate patients in losing weight.

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Section: Impact Of the Workplace On Obesitymentioning

confidence: 84%

Obesity in the Workplace

Yarborough

Brethauer

Burton

et al. 2018

Journal of Occupational &Amp; Environmental Medicine

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“…For example, in an OECD context, Turkey has one of highest proportions of workers who work long hours in the workforce. It is well established that working long hours has many negative side effects including obesity (Mercan 2014). Therefore, researchers need to investigate the effects of obesity both on workers' health and on extending working life.…”

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Turkey

Mercan¹

2020

Extended Working Life Policies

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Turkish residents 65 and older comprise 8.8% of the total population yet the academic literature on the relationships among the effects of ageing, gender and the labour market is very limited. This chapter describes the characteristics of older workers and discusses changes in the legal structure of the labour market and their implications in Turkey. It also focuses on the Social Security system (especially the pension scheme) and the historically very low female labour force participation rates which reduce self-sufficiency for women at older ages. Finally, the chapter considers precarious employment and work-related health policies in Turkey.

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“…Furthermore, longer work hours are related to weight gain (Au & Hollingsworth, 2011;Mercan, 2014) and higher body mass index (DiMilla, 2009). It is also associated with unhealthy behaviors; for example smoking, consumption of alcohol and coffee, having unbalanced diets and inadequate leisure time physical activity.…”

Section: Obesity and Occupationmentioning

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“…Nevertheless, most of the studies focus on the prevalence of obesity within occupations and to some extent related health behaviors. Even though there are several studies, which investigate the relationship between obesity and working hours (Au, Hauck, & Hollingsworth, 2013;Mercan, 2014), there is no previous study investigating the effect of working hours on obesity by occupation groups. This study is first to examine the probability of being obese in 40 occupational groups focusing on the effect of working hours.…”

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Occupation and Obesity: Effect of Working Hours on Obesity by Occupation Groups

Barlin¹,

Mercan²

2016

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Despite leveling off, United States is faced with high prevalence of obesity. Obesity epidemic is an important public health concern imposing pressures on social support schemes, leading to productivity losses and threatening quality of life of the people living with it. As occupations take up good portion of adult's daily life and have close relations with socio-economic factors and behavioral traits, understanding the relationships between occupations and obesity aids efforts fighting with the epidemic. In this respect, taking working hours into consideration, present study investigates the probability of being obese in 40 occupational groupings and identifies six occupation groups reducing the risk of obesity. This study is a first attempt to examine the effect of working hours on obesity by occupation groups in the United States.

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A Research Note on the Relationship Between Long Working Hours and Weight Gain for Older Workers in the United States

Cited by 24 publications

References 28 publications

Obesity in the Workplace

Obesity in the Workplace

Turkey

Occupation and Obesity: Effect of Working Hours on Obesity by Occupation Groups

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