title: [Shift work and biological rhythms (author's transl)].
abstract: In highly industrialised countries shift work has become inevitable for technological, economic and social reasons. At the present time approximately 20% of the workforce are engaged in shift work, which partly includes night and weekend work. As a result of this form of work, diseases and disorders manifest themselves in shift workers which--combined with an individual predisposition or with certain situational factors--arise partly from disturbance of sleep on the day after night work, partly from difficulties in adapting biological function to the phase-shift of work and sleep. The resulting biological and organisational problems with respect to the practicabilities of shift work are discussed in the light of studies on experimental shift work.
mesh_terms: D001831:Body Temperature; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D004467:Economics; D006801:Humans; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D010507:Periodicity; D013672:Technology
vernacular_title: Schichtarbeit und biologische Rhythmik.