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Impact of the night work on the quality of life
BLAHOVÁ, Monika
The contents of bachelor thesis are named ?How Night Shifts Influence Quality of Life?. Shift work provides people with new jobs and wages. Work, during night shifts in particular, is usually evaluated with higher financial extras. Shift work, and particularly, work performed during night can have a negative impact on health of employees and their social and family life. Health problems are connected with irregular cycle of living. Humans naturally work during a day and relax at night. Biorhythm of a person working at night is different and some individuals hardly get used to this fact. Bad adaptable abilities of human body are the reasons for many health troubles, e.g. difficult concentrating, stomach illnesses, problems with blood circulation, and researches of some experts also recorded a higher risk of cancer occurrence. Shift work also influences social life of people, family routine and partnership. Young people often suffer from difficulty of finding a lasting partnership and parents working in shifts cannot spend much time with their families. Some employees of a company with the three-shift operation are chosen for the research. The company is involved in production of moulded pieces on injection mouldings. Approximately 126 employees work in three-shift operation, mostly women (app. 74%). 98 employees takes part in the research, from whom 77% are under 45 years old. The bachelor thesis contains theoretical and empirical parts. The theoretical part deals with the objectification of conceptions. There are ideas by many authors included, debating issues of night shift and three-shift operation and quality of living with regard to health of people, further to social relationship and partnership, and other similar issues. There are number of various impacts of night shift on the physical and mental side of human health and the influence of a night shift routine on the selected social aspects, particularly, on family and partnership. The empirical part contains my own findings of the analysis of research which is done to find the influence of night shift on the quality of living. The target of thesis: Ad 1: to find out how the subjective night shift workers? feelings of their health are influenced in three-shift routine of work. Ad 2: to find the influence of night shift of the three-shift routine of work on the social life. Hypothesis 1: The tested people feel deterioration of their health due to night shifts. Hypothesis 2: The night shift routine affects the selected aspects of social life. confirm or rebut the hypotheses mentioned above, a method of quantity research of quantitative research is chosen, and a questionnaire is used to collect the data. The questionnaires, containing 16 questions each, are distributed among 126 of respondents. The 78% of them are returned completed. The collected data are included in the survey graphs and the hypotheses of statistics are tested. The first hypothesis is confirmed on the basis of the evaluation of respondents? answers by the statistical testing. The hypothesis supposes that the surveyed workers feel their health deterioration due to their night shifts. According to the certain indicators, health deterioration is notable depending on the number of years spend in the three-shift routine during their employment. Age also plays an important role in the evaluation of results. Employees of an advanced age often have headaches than those of a younger one. The total frequency of health problems grows by ageing therefore workers of an advanced age experiencing night shifts have evidently more often health problems. Moreover, the statistics show that night shift more negatively influences health of women. On the basis of the obtained data demanding targets are achieved. The bachelor thesis can become a resource both for experts and general public who are involved in monitoring the influence of night shifts on quality of living.
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Classification and possible solutions for problem areas in prefab housing estates in the Czech Republic
Kallabová, Eva
The impacts of the development after 1989 resulted, apart of other economic changes, in complex house building termination (1992). The complex house building had been focused on the construction of prefab houses in concentrated estates. The environment of the estates is characterized with problems of social, technical, traffic, demographic, ets. Character. One third of the state population lives on the estates, therefore humanization and regeneration projects were commenced. Sociological research has shown, that the inhabitants of housing estates do not complan much about living in a block of flats but about the environment of the estate in general. Due to the repetitiveness of housing estate´s features, it is possible to locate the problem areas (parking lots, sport and playgrounds, shopping malls, open sites, greenery, etc.) and phenomena (safety, orientation, etc.) related to them. Drawing on the experience of the countires of the West (adjusted to the regional circumstatnces), it will be possibleto gradually change Czech housing estates ino sites that will not only serve as residential but complex livin environment and that woll initiate and cultivate its inhabitants.
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