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ReviewAnnual review of public health2024

Ramifications of Precarious Employment for Health and Health Inequity: Emerging Trends from the Americas.

Anjum Hajat, Sarah B Andrea, Vanessa M Oddo, Megan R Winkler, Emily Q Ahonen

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Review in Annual review of public health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
16.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Anjum HajatDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; email: anjumh@uw.edu.
Sarah B AndreaSchool of Public Health, Oregon Health and Sciences University-Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Vanessa M OddoDepartment of Kinesiology and Nutrition, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Megan R WinklerDepartment of Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Emily Q AhonenDivision of Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Emory University · USPortland State University · USUniversity of Illinois Chicago · USUniversity of Utah · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

XENOBIOTIC BIOTRANSFORMATION AND DISPOSITIONP30ES007033 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Nicole Ann Errett · 1995 to 2026
$42.5M
The role of precarious work in the production of health disparities in older agesR01AG060011 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI HAJAT, ANJUM · 2018 to 2021
$1.7M
Precarious Employment as a Determinant of Overweight and Cardiometabolic RiskR00MD012807 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI ODDO, VANESSA MARIE · 2020 to 2022
$747k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG060011NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES007033NIMHD NIH HHS R00 MD012807
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Precarious employment (PE), which encompasses the power relations between workers and employers, is a well-established social determinant of health that has strong ramifications for health and health inequity. In this review, we discuss advances in the measurement of this multidimensional construct and provide recommendations for overcoming continued measurement challenges. We then evaluate recent evidence of the negative health impacts of PE, with a focus on the burgeoning studies from North America and South America. We also establish the role of PE in maintaining and perpetuating health inequities and review potential policy solutions to help alleviate its health burden. Last, we discuss future research directions with a call for a better understanding of the heterogeneity within PE and for research that focuses both on upstream drivers that shape PE and its impacts on health, as well as on the mechanisms by which PE causes poor health.

Indexed as

EmploymentSocial Determinants of HealthAmericasHealth InequitiesHealth Status DisparitiesHumansJob Securityemployment conditionsemployment qualityEQhealth inequityPEprecarious employmentprecarious worksocial determinants

Identifiers

PMID38012123
PMCPMC11128534
OpenAlexW4389068553

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