Bjørn Tore Langeland

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has emerged as a disease which is widespread in Norway. COPD is the name for a collection of lung conditions including chronic bronchitis, emphysema and chronic obstructive airways disease. People with COPD have difficulty breathing, primarily due to the

Working time lost because of sickness and disability is costly both for individual workers and for society.

Cancer is a fairly common disorder, with the overall lifetime risk of developing cancer before the age of 75 being 33% for men and 27% for women. In 2007, 26,000 new cases of cancer were reported in Norway, 14,000 of which were in men. Several studies have attempted to estimate the proportion of

Studies over the past decade (Anderson et al, 2010; Ostlie et al, 2011) reveal that work-related hand injuries in general, and upper-extremity amputations in particular, present a significant challenge.

This report summarises the findings of ‘Faktaboken om arbeidsmiljø og helse 2011’ [Factbook on working and health 2011], which presents updated statistics on the Norwegian working environment and identifies trends in work-related health problems by gender, age and occupational and industry groups

Headache is a very common health problem. The worldwide point prevalence of headache, regardless of type, has been estimated to be as high as 46% in the general adult population (Stovner et al, 2007).

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in Western societies. In 2007, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC [1]) classified shift work that involves disruption of circadian rhythms as a probable human carcinogen (Stevens et al, 2011). [1] http://www.iarc.fr/

Workplace bullying is the tendency for individuals or groups to use persistent aggressive or unreasonable behaviour against a co-worker or subordinate. Unlike other forms of harassment, such as sexual harassment and racism, bullying is not about isolated incidents but rather about persistent attacks