Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Working conditions, health and productivity among dentists in Swedish public dental care - a prospective study during a 5-year period of rationalisation

MAP20130037639

Working conditions, health and productivity among dentists in Swedish public dental care - a prospective study during a 5-year period of rationalisation / B. Rolander...[et.al]

Sumario: In recent decades, comprehensive rationalisations have been implemented in public dentistry in Sweden. How rationalisations affect working conditions, health and production from a long-term perspective has been poorly investigated. This study aims to analyse changes and associations in dentists' working conditions, health and productivity during a 5-year period. In 2003 and 2008, 65 dentists responded to questionnaires measuring work conditions and health. Treatment times for patients and productivity were tracked in electronic registers. Paired t-tests showed that the number of treated adult patients per dentist increased, and perceived physical working conditions improved while perceived work control and leadership deteriorated. Structural equation modelling showed that physical factors were important for health and productivity. When assessing risks in the work environment, there is a need to understand the interaction of effects on working conditions and health due to rationalisations so as to increase the sustainability of production systems

En: Ergonomics : the international journal of research and practice in human factors and ergonomics. - Oxon [United Kingdom] : Taylor & Francis, 2010- = ISSN 0014-0139. - 02/09/2013 Volumen 56 Número 9 - septiembre 2013