Home care work organization and health: do Hispanic women have different concerns

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• Personal Author:
  Arteaga SS ; Delp L ; Geiger-Brown J ; Lipscomb, Jane A. ; Mutaner C ; Trinkoff A
• Description:
  Home care is one of the most rapidly expanding segments of the health care industry, with both demographic and fiscal pressures ensuring that this type of care will continue into the future. Much of the care is provided by low wage workers, mostly women, without the typical protections and benefits that workers in traditional health care settings receive. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the experience of a sample of home care workers. Four focus groups were held, three with ethnically mixed groups, and one with exclusively Hispanic workers. Four major themes emerged: physical demands, emotional drain, compensation issues, and benefits of the work. Although some Hispanic women might be at greater risk of overexploitation because of language barriers and immigration status, there were no major differences noted between the health concerns of Hispanic and non-Hispanic home-care workers. The themes identified some seemed to cut across cultures and ethnicity for workers in home care. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Mental Health Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Stress, Psychological Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Emotional-stress Health-care Health-care-personnel Health-services Job-analysis Job-stress Medical-personnel Medical-services Musculoskeletal-system Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Occupational-exposure Occupational-health Psychological-effects Psychological-reactions Psychological-stress Qualitative-analysis Racial-factors Statistical-analysis Work-analysis Work-environment Work-operations Work-organization Work-performance Work-practices Worker-health Workplace-monitoring Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  1540-4153
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  135-141
• Volume:
  1
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039761
• Citation:
  Hisp Health Care Int 2002 Jul; 1(3):135-141
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Performing Organization:
  University of Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  Hispanic Health Care International
• End Date:
  20060929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f64cd300efb74fcc3a7d08974535ee210f19dea33ce1eca204406c666200d80ed94d740a1f60ce55b7a3449f441ecdd1b4c65731e08cfe0f58b75b0cdc83f5ac
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192875/cdc_192875_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.60 MB ]