Journal article
Work and its role in shaping the social gradient in health
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, v 1186(1), pp 102-124
01 Jan 2010
PMID: 20201870
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Abstract
Adults with better jobs enjoy better health: job title was, in fact, the social gradient metric first used to study the relationship between social class and chronic disease etiology, a core finding now replicated in most developed countries. What has been less well proved is whether this correlation is causal, and if so, through what mechanisms. During the past decade, much research has been directed at these issues. Best evidence in 2009 suggests that occupation does affect health. Most recent research on the relationship has been directed at disentangling the pathways through which lower-status work leads to adverse health outcomes. This review focuses on six areas of recent progress: (1) the role of status in a hierarchical occupational system; (2) the roles of psychosocial job stressors; (3) effects of workplace physical and chemical hazard exposures; (4) evidence that work organization matters as a contextual factor; (5) implications for the gradient of new forms of nonstandard or "precarious" employment such as contract and shift work; and (6) emerging evidence that women may be impacted differently by adverse working conditions, and possibly more strongly, than men.
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- Title
- Work and its role in shaping the social gradient in health
- Creators
- Jane E. Clougherty - Harvard UniversityKerry Souza - Harvard UniversityMark R. Cullen - Stanford University
- Contributors
- N E Adler (Editor)J Stewart (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, v 1186(1), pp 102-124
- Series
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 23
- Grant note
- R01 AG026291 / NIA NIH HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) R01AG026291 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health; Drexel University; Environmental and Occupational Health
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000277908000007
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-77249160707
- Other Identifier
- 991020099677604721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health