scholarly journals Nutritional Risk, Perceived Health Status, and Depression of the Young-Old and the Old-Old in Low-Income Elderly Women

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myung-Suk Lee
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Perceived Health ◽  
Nutritional Risk ◽  
Perceived Health Status ◽  
Young Old

Association Between Informal Employment and Health Status and the Role of the Working Conditions in Spain

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Jose M. Montero-Moraga ◽  
Fernando G. Benavides ◽  
Maria Lopez-Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Perceived Health ◽  
Psychosocial Risk Factors ◽  
Psychosocial Risk ◽  
Informal Employment ◽  
Perceived Health Status

Informal employment is an employment condition in which workers are not protected by labor regulations. It has been associated with poor health status in middle- and low-income countries, but it is still a neglected issue in high-income countries. Our aim was to estimate the association between health status and employment profiles in Spain, attending to the role of workplace risk factors. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 8,060 workers from the Seventh Spanish Working Conditions Survey (2011). We defined 4 employment profiles and estimated the associations between them and poor self-perceived health using Poisson regression models. All analyses were stratified by sex. The prevalence of the informal profile was 4% for women and 1.5% for men. Differences in self-perceived health status among employment profiles were negligible. Only women engaged in informal employment had poorer self-perceived health than those in the reference profile. This difference disappeared after adjusting models for psychosocial risk factors. In conclusion, we did not find differences in self-perceived health status between employment profiles, except for women in informal employment. Efforts should be made to improve the psychosocial risk factors in women in informal employment.

scholarly journals Effects of Residential Instability of Renters on Their Perceived Health Status: Findings from the Korean Welfare Panel Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (19) ◽  
pp. 7125
Author(s):  
Kiduk Park ◽  
Wonseok Seo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Perceived Health ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Perceived Health Status ◽  
Residential Instability ◽  
The Impact

Identifying the impact of housing instability on the health status of renters with relatively high economic difficulties is important for the improvement of renters’ quality of life and their social security. Accordingly, this study adopted a panel data regression approach to examine the associations between residential instability and perceived health status—including physical and mental health—using 14 waves (2006–2019) of longitudinal data collected by the Korean Welfare Panel Study. The results showed that residential instability significantly affected perceived health status, and renters who experienced residential instability perceived worse health status and had more severe depression than those who did not experience residential instability. Moreover, failure to meet the minimum housing standard worsened depression in renters. Despite assistance benefits from the government, permanent rental housing and the national basic living security were also factors that worsened depression. Dissatisfaction with one’s residential environment and social relationships were also associated with increased depression. We recommend that the overall quality of housing welfare services, including a focus on the mental health of low-income renters, be improved by expanding the range of services, increasing the number of professional housing welfare workers, and supplying community facilities for increasing residential and social relationship satisfactions.

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