Contemporary contestations over working time: Time for health to weigh in

Abstract

Background: Non-communicable disease (NCD) incidence and prevalence is of central concern to most nations along with international agencies such as the UN, OECD, IMF and World Bank. As a result, the search has begun fo 'causes of the cause' behind health risks and behaviours responsible for the major NCDs. As part of this effort researchers are turning their attention to charting the temporal nature of societal changes that might be associate with the rapid rise in NCDs. From this, the experience of time and its allocation are increasingly understood to b key individual and societal resources for health (7-9) The interdisciplinary study outlined in this paper will produce a systematic analys..