ArticleScandinavian journal of work, environment & health2017
Obscured by administrative data? Racial disparities in occupational injury.
Article in Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05199415 (Fulfillment Center Intervention Study as Part of The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Fulfillment Center Intervention Study as Part of The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- Racial and Ethnic Inequities in the Return-to-Work of Workers Experiencing Injury or Illness: A Systematic Review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2023Pooled it
- Racial and Ethnic Inequities to Cumulative Environmental and Occupational Impacts in Michigan.GeoHealth · 2025Article
- Engaging Low-Wage Workers in Health and Well-Being Survey Research: Strategies From 5 Occupational Studies.American journal of public health · 2025Article
- Virtual Reality Training to Reduce Workplace Violence in Healthcare.Issues in mental health nursing · 2025Article
- Who do you ask? Predicting injury rates from survey responses.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2024Article
- "On the books" yet "off the record"-occupational injury and migrant women: scoping review findings from OECD countries, with implications for New Zealand.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024Article
- Applying a Health Equity Lens to Work-Related Motor Vehicle Safety in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Using advanced racial and ethnic identity demographics to improve surveillance of work-related conditions in an occupational clinic setting.American journal of industrial medicine · 2022Article
- Occupational Health and Safety Statistics as an Indicator of Worker Physical Health in South African Industry.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- The relationship of occupational injury and use of mental health care.Journal of safety research · 2020Article
- Literature Review of Policy Implications From Findings of the Center for Work, Health, and Well-being.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2019Review
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Objectives Underreporting of occupational injuries is well documented, but underreporting patterns may vary by worker characteristics, obscuring disparities. We tested for racial and ethnic differences in injury reporting patterns by comparing injuries reported via research survey and administrative injury database in the same group of healthcare workers in the US. Methods We used data from a cohort of 1568 hospital patient-care workers who were asked via survey whether they had been injured at work during the year prior (self-reported injury; N=244). Using the hospital's injury database, we determined whether the same workers had reported injuries to the hospital's occupational health service during that year (administratively reported injury; N=126). We compared data sources to test for racial and ethnic differences in injury reporting practices. Results In logistic regression models adjusted for demographic and occupational characteristics, black workers' odds of injury as measured by self-report data were 1.91 [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.04-3.49] compared with white workers. The same black workers' odds of injury as measured by administrative data were 1.22 (95% CI 0.54-2.77) compared with white workers. Conclusions The undercount of occupational injuries in administrative versus self-report data may be greater among black compared to white workers, leading to underestimates of racial disparities in workplace injury.
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