Effect of unequal employment status on workers' health: Results from a Japanese national survey

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 439-451

  Nishikitani, Mariko ^a,b   Tsurugano, Shinobu ^a   Inoue, Mariko ^a   Yano, Eiji ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cohort effect; Employment status; Japan; National survey; Period effect; Workers' health

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LIVING STANDARD; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TREND ANALYSIS; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD REARING; CONSULTATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE WORKER; MARRIAGE; NAMED GROUPS BY OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SYMPTOM; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNEMPLOYMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

JAPAN;

EID: 84861676546     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.11.039     Document Type: Article

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