title: [Relation of occupational demands and stresses, health status and work incapacity of young workers].
abstract: A cross-sectional analysis was carried out comprising 620 boys and 294 girls active in their jobs between one and six years after leaving school to examine the influence of physical conditions and job-related stress and exposures on the frequency of their absenteeism from work due to illness. The frequency is rather high in young workers with chronic disorders or people who have to work under adverse hygienic conditions. This can be seen as a result of both psychic and social factors as well as chronic disorders or job-related stress and exposures, the latter influencing heavily the time a worker may be unfit for work. To raise young people's fitness for work it is necessary to elevate the standard of industrial welfare and provide appropriate health care at the workplace.
authors.affiliation: Arbeitshygieneinspektion des Magistrats von Berlin.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kolbe
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D005859:Germany, East / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation
vernacular_title: Beziehungen zwischen beruflichen Anforderungen und Belastungen, gesundheitlichen Voraussetzungen und der Arbeitsunfähigkeit jugendlicher Werktätiger.