Association Between Employment Status and Self-rated Health: Korean Working Conditions Survey

Overview

Journal Ann Occup Environ Med

Specialty Environmental Health

Date 2016 Sep 13

PMID 27617100

Citations 12

Authors

Kimin Kwon

Jae Bum Park

Kyung-Jong Lee

Yoon-Sik Cho

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Abstract

Background: This research was conducted with an aim of determining the association between employment status and self-rated health.

Methods: Using the data from the Third Korean Working Conditions Survey conducted in 2011, We included data from 34,783 respondents, excluding employers, self-employed workers, unpaid family workers, others. Self-rated health was compared according to employment status and a logistic regression analysis was performed.

Results: Among the 34,783 workers, the number of permanent and non-permanent workers was 27,564 (79.2 %) and 7,219 (20.8 %). The risk that the self-rated health of non-permanent workers was poor was 1.20 times higher when both socio-demographic factors, work environment and work hazards were corrected.

Conclusions: In this study, perceived health was found to be worse in the non-permanent workers than permanent workers. Additional research should investigate whether other factors mediate the relationship between employment status and perceived health.

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