Findings from the first global analysis of the loss of life and health associated with exposure to long working hours were published in Environment Internationall. These are the first set of WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury. In the related press conference (held on the 13th May 2021), Dr Maria Neira, Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, at WHO, summarized the main findings that long working hours led to 745 000 deaths from stroke and ischaemic heart disease globally in 2016. Dr Frank Pega, Technical Officer at WHO and lead author of the study, reported on the data and methods used to produce the estimates, and the implications of the findings. Professor Jian Li, from the University of California, Los Angeles, who was a member of the Technical Advisory Group for these estimates, discussed the causal link between long working hours and these two diseases.
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WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury