"Asserts that although much is known about the relation between work and stress, present worklife conditions and their trends are often regarded as inevitable, which restricts action to various therapies offered to individual workers. This article discusses some of the recent actions taken by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in the US and the Health and Safety Commission in the UK, and highlights a "triangular" conference among leading occupational, behavioral, and environmental health scientists from Europe, Japan, and North America held at the Tokyo Medical University. Comparing exposures, outcomes, trends, and approaches, these scientists analyzed work-related stress and health in the 3 postindustrial settings. On the basis of this analysis, a document entitled the Tokyo Declaration was issued, advocating various ways to prevent work-related stress."

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