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Work as a determining factor in the health-sickness process

The article seeks to analyse how, in the current context, the organizational and fiscal conditions of work, labour situations and relations, and forms of management all determine and contribute to worker sickness. In order to comprehend this complex relationship, the text discusses the need to explore different and complementary viewpoints. Based on the testimony of a worker made sick by work, therefore, I look to construct a dialogue with a number of theoretical studies that treat the relation between the activity of work and worker health, as well as analysing the theoretical-methodological information provided by international research into workers' health.

Health worker; Mental health; Organization of work; Workplace harassment; Banking sector


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