Impact of Road Traffic Gridlock, Related Stress and Office Sedentary Behaviour on Workforce Health and Well-being in sub-Saharan Africa

The workforce in sub-Saharan Africa faces stressful conditions while commuting on the road and while at 
work. This could propel it towards developing unhealthy lifestyle and contribute to the growing burden of noncommunicable disease in the sub-region. The objective of this review is to highlight the plausible health challenges to and impacts on the well-being of workers in sub-Saharan Africa who regularly have to commute between home and the workplace under stressful conditions imposed by traffic gridlock and the associated exposure to air pollution and noise. Effort is also devoted to describe, the health challenges of prolonged sitting both while in traffic gridlock and during office hours. Also approaches towards mitigating these challenges are discussed. A systematic literature review search was carried out using Google, Google Scholar and PubMed search engines for peer reviewed published literature relevant to the subject. 
The challenges to health and well-being of workers in sub-Saharan Africa posed by traffic gridlock and sedentary behaviour 
in the office setting with attendant risk of susceptibility to non-communicable diseases could be mitigated by improving 
transportation infrastructure and implementing exercise-based office wellness programmes. There is need for more evidencebased research on the subject.