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What explains the socioeconomic status-health gradient? Evidence from workplace COVID-19 infections
This paper studies the contribution of the workplace to the SES-health gradient. Our analysis is based on a unique dataset that tracks various health outcomes and workplace risks among healthcare workers during the first four months of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The setting provides a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150908/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35669891 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101124 |
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description | This paper studies the contribution of the workplace to the SES-health gradient. Our analysis is based on a unique dataset that tracks various health outcomes and workplace risks among healthcare workers during the first four months of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The setting provides an exceptional opportunity to test for work-related disparities in health, while controlling for confounding determinants of the SES-health gradient. We find that low-SES nurses were systematically more likely to contract COVID-19 as a result of workplace exposure. These differentials existed in all healthcare institutions, but were particularly large in non-hospital settings. In contrast, we find no relationship between SES and nonwork-related infection rates. The differences in workplace infection rates are substantially larger than those implied by standard ‘task-based’ indices of transmission risk, and cannot be attributable to easily identifiable metrics of workplace risk. Together, our results show how subtle differences in work conditions or job duties can substantially contribute to the SES-health gradient. |
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spelling | pubmed-91509082022-05-31 What explains the socioeconomic status-health gradient? Evidence from workplace COVID-19 infections Godefroy, Raphael Lewis, Joshua SSM Popul Health Article This paper studies the contribution of the workplace to the SES-health gradient. Our analysis is based on a unique dataset that tracks various health outcomes and workplace risks among healthcare workers during the first four months of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The setting provides an exceptional opportunity to test for work-related disparities in health, while controlling for confounding determinants of the SES-health gradient. We find that low-SES nurses were systematically more likely to contract COVID-19 as a result of workplace exposure. These differentials existed in all healthcare institutions, but were particularly large in non-hospital settings. In contrast, we find no relationship between SES and nonwork-related infection rates. The differences in workplace infection rates are substantially larger than those implied by standard ‘task-based’ indices of transmission risk, and cannot be attributable to easily identifiable metrics of workplace risk. Together, our results show how subtle differences in work conditions or job duties can substantially contribute to the SES-health gradient. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-06 2022-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9150908/ /pubmed/35669891 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101124 Text en © 2022 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Godefroy, Raphael Lewis, Joshua What explains the socioeconomic status-health gradient? Evidence from workplace COVID-19 infections |
title | What explains the socioeconomic status-health gradient? Evidence from workplace COVID-19 infections |
title_full | What explains the socioeconomic status-health gradient? Evidence from workplace COVID-19 infections |
title_fullStr | What explains the socioeconomic status-health gradient? Evidence from workplace COVID-19 infections |
title_full_unstemmed | What explains the socioeconomic status-health gradient? Evidence from workplace COVID-19 infections |
title_short | What explains the socioeconomic status-health gradient? Evidence from workplace COVID-19 infections |
title_sort | what explains the socioeconomic status-health gradient? evidence from workplace covid-19 infections |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150908/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35669891 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101124 |
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