Recent studies suggest that unstable employment contracts may affect the health of workers. Many Japanese workers working full time in ostensibly permanent positions actually operate within unstable and precarious employment conditions. We compared the health status of Japanese workers with precarious employment contracts with that of permanent workers using the 2007 Comprehensive Survey of Liv...

Purpose: The present research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model of effective sociological factors in employment on attitudes to unemployment status in the children of devotees. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional from type of correlation. The research population was unemployment children of devotees of...

BACKGROUND Temporary employment leads to psychological distress and higher mortality, but data on its associations with oral health is limited. We examined whether having the experience of temporary employment was associated with tooth loss among working adults in Japan. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study from the 2010-2011 Japanese Study on Stratification, Health, Income, and Neigh...

Partner violence may have significant consequences on women's employment, yet limited information is available about how women cope on the job with perpetrators' tactics and the consequences of her coping methods on employment status. This article investigates whether there is an association between workplace disclosure of victimization and current employment status; and whether there is an ass...

BACKGROUND In the United States, adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience high rates of unemployment and underemployment in relation to adults with other disabilities and the general population. Yet there is little research examining their employment experiences and the predictors of employment status. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the employment characterist...

BACKGROUND Individuals with disabilities are a health disparity population with high rates of risk factors, lower overall health status, and greater health care costs. The interacting effect of employment, health and disability has not been reported in the research. OBJECTIVE This study examined the relationship of employment to health and quality of life among people with disabilities. MET...

The prevalence of physical domestic violence--violence against women perpetrated by husbands--is staggeringly high across the Indian subcontinent. Although gender-based power dynamics are thought to underlie women's vulnerability, relatively little is known about risk and protective factors. This prospective study in southern India examined the association between key economic aspects of gender...