What the quality of work means for our health

• Publication Type: Report
• Publication date: 15 February 2020

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Summary

Social, economic, commercial and environmental conditions are the strongest determinants of people’s health. This includes people’s access to homes that are safe, stable and warm; the availability of an adequate financial safety net; access to healthy, affordable food; and the quality of their work. This long read presents new analysis exploring changes in one of these wider determinants of health: the labour market. This includes the quantity and quality of employment over the last 10 years, the implications of these changes for health, and what they mean for public policy. It is the first in a series addressing changes in the wider determinants of health and what they mean for health inequalities.

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https://www.health.org.uk/news-and-comment/blogs/the-quality-of-work-and-what-it-means-for-health#lf-section-52226-anchor

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References: Chandola, T. and Zhang, N. (2018) ‘Re-employment, job quality, health and allostatic load biomarkers: prospective evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study’, International Journal of Epidemiology, 47(1): 47-57