Abstract
The shifting nature of employment in recent decades has not been adequately examined from a public health perspective. To that end, traditional models of work and health research need to be expanded to include the relational and contractual aspects of employment that also affect health. We examine the association of three health outcomes with different types of employment in the contemporary U.S. labor market, as measured by a multidimensional construct of employment quality (EQ) derived from latent class analysis. We find that EQ is associated with self-rated health, mental health, and occupational injury. Further, we explore three proposed mediating mechanisms of the EQ-health relationship (material deprivation, employment-related stressors, and occupational risk factors), and find each to be supported by these data.
- © 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Peckham, Trevor, Kaori Fujishiro, Anjum Hajat, Brian P. Flaherty, and Noah Seixas. 2019. “Evaluating Employment Quality as a Determinant of Health in a Changing Labor Market.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(4): 258–81. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.4.09. Trevor Peckham was supported by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health under award number F31MD013357. The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the National Institutes of Health or the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Direct correspondence to: Trevor Peckham at tpeckham{at}uw.edu; 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Suite 100, Box 354695, Seattle, WA 98195.
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