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

Author:

Hajat Anjum1,Andrea Sarah B.2,Oddo Vanessa M.3,Winkler Megan R.4,Ahonen Emily Q.5

Affiliation:

1. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA;

2. School of Public Health, Oregon Health and Sciences University–Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA

3. Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

4. Department of Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

5. Division of Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Public Health, Volume 45 is April 2024. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

Publisher

Annual Reviews

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,General Medicine

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