Work and Its Role in Shaping the Social Gradient in Health

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• Personal Author:
  Clougherty JE ; Cullen MR ; Souza, Kerry
• Description:
  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. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Sex Characteristics Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Occupational Health Gender Factors Health Effects Job Stress Nonstandard Work Occupational Exposure Psycho-social Stressors Psychosocial Factors Sex Factors Sociological Factors Women In The Workplace Work Organization

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• ISSN:
  0077-8923
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  102-124
• Volume:
  1186
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20056392
• Citation:
  Ann NY Acad Sci 2010 Feb; 1186(1):102-124
• Contact Point Address:
  Mark R. Cullen, Division of General Internal Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine, 251 Campus Dr. MSOB Room 338, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
• Email:
  mrcullen@stanford.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing
• Performing Organization:
  University of Pittsburgh
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
• End Date:
  20130831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a4370c01e6f038f92fd3757c612b9c5c974ab7474f452fb0633d6d285d4d5c0ab656d7b698985efac0bd9e1e11165989389e93dc451619750daa2a57bf39b6e1
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/214007/cdc_214007_DS1.pdf
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