A veteran jobs study from the Rand Corporation found that younger veterans (ages 26-30) were more likely to hold jobs with greater physical hazards than their civilian counterparts. This finding was ...

The muscles and joints are not the only parts of the body to be worn down by physical work. The brain and heart suffer too. A new study from the University of Copenhagen shows that people doing hard ...

Objective To compare the country-level absolute and relative contributions of physical activity at work and in the household, for travel, and during leisure-time to total moderate-to-vigorous physical ...

The outdated belief that backbreaking work is good for body and soul is undermined by new research. Source: Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash “Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s off to work we go,” chanted the ...

Aviroop Biswas receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. The Institute for Work & Health is supported in part through ...

The muscles and joints are not the only parts of the body to be worn down by physical work. The brain and heart suffer too. A new study from the University of Copenhagen shows that people doing hard ...

Men in jobs with hard physical work have a higher risk of developing dementia compared to men doing sedentary work, new research reveals. The researchers therefore urge the health authorities to make ...