Thankless job as bad for heart as obesity

 Thankless job as bad for heart as obesity

Kaya Burgess Science Reporter

TheTimes | Wednesday September 20 2023

Men with stressful jobs who feel they get little reward or thanks for their work are twice as likely to develop heart disease as those in more fulfilling roles, a study has found — a similar risk to that associated with obesity.

 Researchers from Canada looked at a factor they called “job strain”, faced by workers who experience a “combination of high job demands and low control over their work”.

This can include roles with a heavy workload and tight deadlines where employees have “little Thankless job as bad for heart as obesity say in decision-making”.

They also looked at “effort-reward imbalance”, where workers feel that their “salary, recognition or job security [is] insufficient or unequal to the effort” required.

The researchers asked almost 6,500 participants, in mainly management, professional, technical and office-based roles, to rate the strain of their jobs and how well-rewarded they felt.

The study, published in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, followed the workers over an 18-year period, from 2000 to 2018, and tracked those who had a “coronary heart disease event”.

The report added that the results were inconclusive for women. A separate study suggests that having highly educated colleagues can lower the risk of developing heart disease for both men and women.

Researchers in Sweden suggested that “highly educated colleagues have more knowledge of good health-related behaviours such as having a healthy diet, exercising and refraining from smoking” and said that “both good and bad habits can spread in social networks at work”. The study was published in the journal BMJ Open.

Pre-reading part

Task1. Paraphrase the statements. Do you agree or disagree? Why (not)? How is the statement related to the headline of the article?

The price of doing a job always less than the expense of doing it twice.

The man who works merely because he has to, will never advance.

Task 1. Make a list of glossary words from the words and phrases given in bold and provide Russian equivalents in written form.

While-reading part

Task 2. Read the article and be ready to translate it.

Task 3. Find in the text of the article sentences containing new vocabulary and explain the meaning in English. Make up sentences of your own using the new vocabulary.

Task 4. Make up a dialogue/interview using the new vocabulary.

Post-reading part

Task 5. Divide the text of the article into logical parts. Make up 2 questions to each part to ask your groupmates.

Task 6. Be ready to discuss in the classroom with your group mates:

А) What was the correspondent’s intention to tell the general public about?

B) What is the main idea/problem raised?

Task 7. Give a summary of the article.

Task 8. Write a rendering of the article. Mind the rules of a rendering writing.

Task 9. Learn the new vocabulary from the article be ready to write the dictation-translation.