Employment conditions as a social determinant of health in Latino populations: policy interventions using the WHO social determinants model

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• Personal Author:
  Brunette MJ ; Moure-Eraso R
• Description:
  The World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health has defined employment conditions as one of the nine social determinants of health status of the general population (WHO, 2005). In this chapter we analyze this factor in the Latino labor force and delineate intervention recommendations to improve Latino workers' occupational health. An increasing body of social science literature proposes that structural social inequality factors, including community factors, are strong and consistent determinants of disparities in health (Williams, 2003). Employment conditions include an external contextual domain composed of structural/community factors and an internal domain consisting of the exposure - disease spectrum (Moure-Eraso, 2006), both of which we examine as determinants of the gradient of health status in the Latino workers population. The most recent demographic profile of the Latino labor force in the United States and statistical evidence of the disparities in Latino occupational-induced mortality and morbidity are also presented. Interventions are discussed using the conceptual framework of the relationships between structural, community, and individual determinants of health inequalities developed by WHO (2005), and recommendations for future studies are provided. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Healthcare Disparities Minority Health Occupational Health Public Health Race Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Diversity Health Disparities Minority Health Occupational Health Disparities Occupational Health Programs Public Health Racial Factors SDOH Social Determinants Of Health
• ISBN:
  9781433826924
• Publisher:
  American Psychological Association (APA)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  51-72
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049451
• Citation:
  Occupational health disparities: improving the well-being of ethnic and racial minority workers. Leong FTL, Eggerth DE, Chang C-H, Flynn MA, Ford JK, Martinez RO, eds. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association (APA), 2017 Feb; :51-72
• Editor(s):
  Leong FTL; Eggerth DE; Chang C-H; Flynn MA; Ford JK; Martinez RO
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Performing Organization:
  University of Massachusetts - Lowell
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational health disparities: improving the well-being of ethnic and racial minority workers
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a647bc17ca75ebbf0a69d78611b405e56310af77ec54beb0a2b01568c9f2c5b78d492b12f92a1338694dda0a381a9dee6f8848a84a6833bc9df06e749923ef2b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203895/cdc_203895_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 8.32 MB ]