Work is an essential component of human life. It represents the relationship between human beings and nature, as well as how humans produce goods and shape their social interactions, providing the foundations for economic production reflected in social and political life. Work is also a concept central to an understanding of the way in which society distributes wealth and power and integrates o...

OBJECTIVE To understand the relationship between several measures of child health status and the employment of parents. DESIGN A cross-sectional study using 1994 National Health Interview Survey on Disability data. PARTICIPANTS A nationally representative sample of children and their parents. OUTCOME MEASURES Maternal and paternal employment (measured separately). INTERVENTION We use a ...

BACKGROUND There is controversy as to whether peripheral employment is related to poor health status or not. This study aims at examining whether 1) the accumulation of time in peripheral labour market positions is associated with psychological distress and poor or average self-rated health; 2) the proposed association is different among women than among men. METHOD Participants in the 1995 a...

objective: the aim of this paper is to investigate whether the combination of paid employment promotes or challenges the quality of life of married employed and unemployed women in iran. method: the samples consisted of 250 married employed women (175 professionals and 75 non-professionals) and 250 married unemployed. stratified convenience sampling technique was used for the selection of the s...

BACKGROUND In the general population, job insecurity may be as harmful to health as unemployment. Some evidence suggests that employment is associated with better health outcomes among people with HIV, but it is not known whether job security offers additional quality-of-life benefits beyond the benefits of employment alone. METHODS We used baseline data for 1660 men and 270 women who partici...

This paper explores the relationship between non-standard types of employment and mental health. The analysis uses data on workers from the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Study, 1991-97. Four different types of non-standard employment (nonstandard contracts, places, times, and weekly hours of work) are analysed and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) index is used as the me...

This Issue Brief provides background information on the employment-based health insurance system and its alternatives. The report discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the current employment-based health insurance system, the current tax treatment of health insurance, and the strength and weaknesses of recent proposals to introduce tax credits. It presents findings from the public opini...

This Issue Brief provides summary data on the insured and uninsured populations in the nation and in each state. It discusses the characteristics most closely related to an individual's health insurance status. Based on EBRI estimates from the March 1999 Current Population Survey (CPS), it represents 1998 data--the most recent data available. In 1998, 194.7 million nonelderly Americans--81.6 pe...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether employment status after job loss due to privatisation influences health and use of health services and whether financial strain, psychosocial measures, or health related behaviours can explain any findings. DESIGN Data collected before and 18 months after privatisation. SETTING One department of the civil service that was sold to the private sector. PARTICI...

BACKGROUND Changes in employment status may be associated with changes in health-related lifestyle, but population level research of such associations is very limited. This study aimed to determine associations between lifestyle and five employment trajectories, i.e. 'stable', 'unstable', 'upward' 'downward' and 'chronic unemployment'. METHODS A cohort of 10,100 employees was followed up for ...