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Menopause and work: A narrative literature review about menopause, work and health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Menopause is part of working women's lives. In Western countries, labour market patterns are changing rapidly: women's labour participation has increased, the percentage of full-time working women is rising, and retirement age is increasing.

Objective

This narrative literature study aims to provide an insight in the state of the art in the literature about the relationship between menopause, work and health and to identify knowledge gaps as input for further research.

Methods

The search was conducted in PubMed, CINAHL, MEDLINE and ScienceDirect. The final set includes 36 academic articles, 27 additional articles related to the topic and 6 additional sources.

Results

Research on menopause, work and health is scarce. Results are grouped thematically as follows: Menopause and (1) a lack of recognising; (2) sickness absence and costs; (3) work ability; (4) job characteristics; (5) psychosocial and cultural factors; (6) health; (7) mental health, and (8) coping and interventions. Work ability of women with severe menopausal complaints may be negatively affected.

Conclusions

Due to taboo, menopause remains unrecognised and unaddressed within an organisational context. New theoretical and methodological approaches towards research on menopause, work and health are required in order to match the variety of the work contexts world-wide.

SUBMITTER: Verdonk P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9277682 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Menopause and work: A narrative literature review about menopause, work and health.

Verdonk Petra P Bendien Elena E Appelman Yolande Y

Work (Reading, Mass.) 20220101 2

<h4>Background</h4>Menopause is part of working women's lives. In Western countries, labour market patterns are changing rapidly: women's labour participation has increased, the percentage of full-time working women is rising, and retirement age is increasing.<h4>Objective</h4>This narrative literature study aims to provide an insight in the state of the art in the literature about the relationship between menopause, work and health and to identify knowledge gaps as input for further research.<h ...[more]

PMID: 35570508

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Menopause and work: A narrative literature review about menopause, work and health.

Background

Objective

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Results

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Menopause and work: A narrative literature review about menopause, work and health.

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