Globalization, Work, and Cardiovascular Disease

摘要: Cardiovascular disease (CVD), a global epidemic, is responsible for about 30% of all deaths worldwide. While mortality rates from CVD have been mostly declining in the advanced industrialized nations, risk factors, including hypertension, obesity, and diabetes, on increase everywhere. Researchers investigating social causes produced robust body evidence documenting relationships between work environment CVD, through mechanisms psychosocial stressors. We review empirical linking work, stressors, CVD. These stressors can produce chronic biologic arousal promote unhealthy behaviors thus, increased risk. offer theoretical model that illustrates how economic globalization influences labor market organization high-income countries, which, turn, exacerbates job characteristics, such as demands, low control, effort-reward imbalance, insecurity, long hours...