TY - GEN
T1 - Risk Behaviours and Self-medication in Active Workers
AU - Castillo Martínez, Juan Alberto
AU - Pérez-Acosta, Andrés M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The problem of self-medication at work has different nuances and raises serious questions about work practices. Self-medication behaviours are linked to cultural and social practices, however in workers it was related to pain management and to face the demands of their activity, self-medication can be seen as a resource in itself to maintain productivity at work. This study addressed self-medication behaviours and risk behaviours in three consecutive moments and in complementary perspectives, this in order to understand how they can be related. Specifically, when workers must place work at the center of their interests, leaving apart matters related to health, self-medication is also identified as a practice related to showing efficiency and productivity, especially in work environments where uncertainty about accessibility to work is critical. The study of self-medication in workers also highlights the problem of high consumption of pain medications, institutional data are just the tip of the iceberg, the high consumption of this type of medication indicates a problem that deserves to be studied in depth due to the profound implications for workers and their health, but also for security problems in organisations.
AB - The problem of self-medication at work has different nuances and raises serious questions about work practices. Self-medication behaviours are linked to cultural and social practices, however in workers it was related to pain management and to face the demands of their activity, self-medication can be seen as a resource in itself to maintain productivity at work. This study addressed self-medication behaviours and risk behaviours in three consecutive moments and in complementary perspectives, this in order to understand how they can be related. Specifically, when workers must place work at the center of their interests, leaving apart matters related to health, self-medication is also identified as a practice related to showing efficiency and productivity, especially in work environments where uncertainty about accessibility to work is critical. The study of self-medication in workers also highlights the problem of high consumption of pain medications, institutional data are just the tip of the iceberg, the high consumption of this type of medication indicates a problem that deserves to be studied in depth due to the profound implications for workers and their health, but also for security problems in organisations.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-74611-7_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-74611-7_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85111153701
SN - 9783030746100
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 47
EP - 54
BT - Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2021 - Healthcare and Healthy Work
A2 - Black, Nancy L.
A2 - Neumann, W. Patrick
A2 - Noy, Ian
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2021
Y2 - 13 June 2021 through 18 June 2021
ER -