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Poor worker’s long working hours paradox: evidence from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013-2018
BACKGROUND: Because income and working hours are closely related, the health impact of working hours can vary according to economic status. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between working hours and the risk of poor self-rated health according to household income level. METHODS: We u...
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Korean Society of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8980752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35425616 http://dx.doi.org/10.35371/aoem.2022.34.e2 |
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author | Park, Min Young Park, Jaeyoung Myong, Jun-Pyo Kim, Hyoung-Ryoul Lee, Dong-Wook Kang, Mo-Yeol |
author_facet | Park, Min Young Park, Jaeyoung Myong, Jun-Pyo Kim, Hyoung-Ryoul Lee, Dong-Wook Kang, Mo-Yeol |
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description | BACKGROUND: Because income and working hours are closely related, the health impact of working hours can vary according to economic status. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between working hours and the risk of poor self-rated health according to household income level. METHODS: We used the data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey VI and VII. The information on working hours and self-rated health was obtained from the questionnaire. After stratifying by household income level, the risk of poor self-rated health for long working hour group (≥ 52 hours a week), compared to the 35–51 working hour group as a reference, were calculated using multiple logistic regression. RESULTS: Long working hours increased the risk of poor self-rated health in the group with the highest income, but not in the group with the lowest income. On the other hand, the overall weighted prevalence of poor self-rated health was higher in the low-income group. CONCLUSIONS: The relationship between long working hours and the risk of poor self-rated health varied by household income level. This phenomenon, in which the health effects of long working hours appear to diminish in low-income households can be referred to as the ‘poor worker’s long working hours paradox’. Our findings suggest that the recent working hour restriction policy implemented by the Korean government should be promoted, together with a basic wage preservation to improve workers’ general health and well-being. |
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spelling | pubmed-89807522022-04-13 Poor worker’s long working hours paradox: evidence from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013-2018 Park, Min Young Park, Jaeyoung Myong, Jun-Pyo Kim, Hyoung-Ryoul Lee, Dong-Wook Kang, Mo-Yeol Ann Occup Environ Med Original Article BACKGROUND: Because income and working hours are closely related, the health impact of working hours can vary according to economic status. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between working hours and the risk of poor self-rated health according to household income level. METHODS: We used the data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey VI and VII. The information on working hours and self-rated health was obtained from the questionnaire. After stratifying by household income level, the risk of poor self-rated health for long working hour group (≥ 52 hours a week), compared to the 35–51 working hour group as a reference, were calculated using multiple logistic regression. RESULTS: Long working hours increased the risk of poor self-rated health in the group with the highest income, but not in the group with the lowest income. On the other hand, the overall weighted prevalence of poor self-rated health was higher in the low-income group. CONCLUSIONS: The relationship between long working hours and the risk of poor self-rated health varied by household income level. This phenomenon, in which the health effects of long working hours appear to diminish in low-income households can be referred to as the ‘poor worker’s long working hours paradox’. Our findings suggest that the recent working hour restriction policy implemented by the Korean government should be promoted, together with a basic wage preservation to improve workers’ general health and well-being. Korean Society of Occupational & Environmental Medicine 2022-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8980752/ /pubmed/35425616 http://dx.doi.org/10.35371/aoem.2022.34.e2 Text en Copyright © 2022 Korean Society of Occupational & Environmental Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Park, Min Young Park, Jaeyoung Myong, Jun-Pyo Kim, Hyoung-Ryoul Lee, Dong-Wook Kang, Mo-Yeol Poor worker’s long working hours paradox: evidence from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013-2018 |
title | Poor worker’s long working hours paradox: evidence from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013-2018 |
title_full | Poor worker’s long working hours paradox: evidence from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013-2018 |
title_fullStr | Poor worker’s long working hours paradox: evidence from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013-2018 |
title_full_unstemmed | Poor worker’s long working hours paradox: evidence from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013-2018 |
title_short | Poor worker’s long working hours paradox: evidence from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013-2018 |
title_sort | poor worker’s long working hours paradox: evidence from the korea national health and nutrition examination survey, 2013-2018 |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8980752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35425616 http://dx.doi.org/10.35371/aoem.2022.34.e2 |
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