Physically intense work and health: A new index to assess the burden of job tasks

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New research links physically demanding tasks—including cleaning, heavy machinery operation, agricultural work, and maintenance—to poorer health later in life. Researchers have developed an index to assess the burden of such job tasks.

Cleaning kitchens and bathrooms, operating heavy machinery, carrying out agricultural work and performing repair and maintenance tasks: These are some of the activities that new research associates with poorer health later in life.