Global social work working conditions and wellbeing

Volunteer Work and Hedonic, Eudemonic, and Social WellBeing

Using two waves of panel data from the National Survey of Midlife in the United States (MIDUS), we examine the relationship between volunteer work and three dimensions of well-being: hedonic (e.g., positive mood), eudemonic (e.g., purpose in life), and social (e.g., feeling of belonging to the community). We test for the effects of volunteering measured as a binary and a continuous variable. Re...

Work, Health and Wellbeing

Received: October 5, 2012 Accepted: October 9, 2012 Available online: November 30, 2012 Correspondence to: Dame Carol BLACK Health Improvement & Protection Directorate, Department of Health 704 Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8UG, UK E-mail: [email protected] During the past decade we have become more aware of important relationships between health and work. There is ...

The Right Language? Reproduction, Wellbeing and Global Social Policy Discourse

The international commitments to reproductive rights are part of an increasingly globalised discourse on social policy. The globalisation of social policy discourse generally is evident both in the growing universalism of social policy agendas, including both the adoption of rights-based approaches and in social sector reform, and in attempts to discover and utilise a global language for social...

Working conditions and social inequalities in health.

Global precarious employment and health inequalities: working conditions, social class, or precariat?

Changes in employment conditions since the 1980s have been referred to as precarious employment, and terms like flexible, atypical, temporary, part-time, contract, self-employed, irregular, or non-standard employment have also been used. In this essay I review some of the current critiques to the precarious employment construct and advance some potential solutions for its use in epidemiology an...