Occupational Health Equity: A Call to Consider Social-Structural Factors in Injury Prevention Research

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• Personal Author:
  Grimes Trotter A ; Guillot-Wright S ; McClure ES ; Ramirez MR ; Richardson DB
• Description:
  Occupational health equity scholarship has been growing over the past decade, including social-structural determinants of health research that centres the voices and experiences of historically marginalised communities. In our commentary, we focus on the intersection of work-related and non-work-related factors and how they impact the health of workers, their families and their communities through community-engaged research. Case studies include the implementation of mobile clinics that are developed alongside communities, community organising to examine and reduce health disparities among racially segregated workers, the development of research instruments and measures to study racism and discrimination, and a focus on how the distribution of employment opportunity is an important point of intervention to eliminate injury disparities. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Community Health Services Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Community Health Injury Prevention Occupational Health SDOH Social Determinants Of Health
• ISSN:
  1353-8047
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant ; Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Atlanta Region [OSHA] ; California ; Chicago Region [OSHA] ; Dallas Region [OSHA] ; Minnesota ; North Carolina ; San Francisco Region [OSHA] ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20070900
• Citation:
  Inj Prev 2025 Apr; :[Epub ahead of print]
• Contact Point Address:
  Dr Shannon Guillot-Wright, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
• Email:
  shannon.p.guillotwright@uth.tmc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2025
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20210901
• Source Full Name:
  Injury Prevention
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8cb32b85ef5812809243fc8983574fe8dcd6d2fd60c0d50b91742f20826d33f62109b1642aa504ea797ea860f1a04732dc0cb3e8e84cb4f606e9fbbc249b1fd6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209024/cdc_209024_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 225.85 KB ]