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World Health Organization (WHO) and the
International Labour Organization (ILO) shows that continually working long hours is not just dangerous; it’s fatal. The study was published in the journal
Environment International on Monday.
In one of the firsts global studies on the relationship between loss of life and extended work, the two organizations found that working long hours led to 745,000 people dying from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016, which is a 29 percent increase from 2000. In 2016, 398,000 people died from a stroke and 347,000 from heart disease due to working at least 55 hours a week, WHO reports.
“Working 55 hours or more per week is a serious health hazard. It’s time that we all, governments, employers, and employees wake up to the fact that long working hours can lead to premature death,” said
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Dear President Biden,
We are a group of human rights, reproductive rights, reproductive justice, environmental justice, maternal and child health, health care professional organizations, medical societies, and other advocates writing with a spirit of energized support for your January Executive Order (EO) on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad[1] and for your commitment to racial justice and environmental justice in addressing the climate crisis in the United States.
April 20, 2021
Pregnant People, Infants, Children Particularly Vulnerable
We are also writing to emphasize that addressing the climate crisis appropriately includes considering how heat, wildfires, floods, and other impacts stand to worsen the maternal health crisis that is dominated by unjust racial disparities, widening further the shocking gap in this country between who has a healthy pregnancy and baby and who does not.
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LOS ANGELES and CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Pledging their commitment to the well-being and resiliency of the country s healthcare workforce,
the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation, in collaboration with the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Nurses Foundation, the American Hospital Association (AHA), and the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, today launched
ALL IN: WellBeing First for Healthcare, a call to action for healthcare organizations to commit to the creation and cultivation of workplace cultures that prioritize health worker well-being.
The initiative comes in response to a mental health crisis exacerbated by the pandemic, as healthcare workers have spent the last 14 months dealing with elevated levels of anxiety, depression, isolation, PTSD, and burnout. The organizations joining the initial launch represent close to 300,000 frontline workers across the nation.