Methods for Recruiting White, Black, and Hispanic Working-Class Women and Men to a Study of Physical and Social Hazards at Work: The United for Health Study

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• Personal Author:
  Barbeau, Elizabeth M. ; Hartman C ; Krieger N ; Quinn, Margaret M. ; Stoddard AM
• Description:
  Despite research on work and health having a long-standing concern about unjust exposures and inequitable burdens of disease, there are few studies that document the joint distribution and health effects of physical and psychosocial hazards (e.g., noise, dusts, fumes, and job strain) and social hazards (e.g., racial discrimination and gender harassment) encountered at work. Also, there is a paucity of data on how these exposures, singly and combined, are distributed in relation to sociodemographic characteristics including race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic position, and nativity. This article presents a conceptual model for redressing these knowledge gaps and describes recruitment strategies and the characteristics of study participants in the United for Health study. Working with labor unions, the authors recruited 14 (67%) of 21 worksites from manufacturing, meat processing, retail, and transportation, and 1,282 workers (72% response rate), of whom 62 percent were men, 36 percent were women, 39 percent were black, 23 percent were Hispanic, 25 percent were white, 31% earned less than a living wage, 40 percent were below the poverty level, and 23 percent had less than a high school education. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Demography Education Epidemiology Mental Health Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Sex Characteristics Stress, Psychological Surveys And Questionnaires

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Demographic-characteristics Health-surveys Occupational-health Psychological-stress Racial-factors Sex-factors Statistical-analysis
• ISSN:
  0020-7314
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  127-144
• Volume:
  37
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20032005
• Citation:
  Int J Health Serv 2007 Jan; 37(1):127-144
• Contact Point Address:
  E.M. Barbeau, Center for Community-Based Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
• Email:
  elizabeth_barbeau@dfci.harvard.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• Performing Organization:
  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  International Journal of Health Services
• End Date:
  20050929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3f42647b15e840c3115128e80ab0e9139b705fc372bc7ca19c96406ffe3d8d03b437e6bf4e6b13ed34574668acf27d74bb5cc9d29774f94b7063a9c4a7a4f34c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186099/cdc_186099_DS1.pdf
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