Non-standard Forms of Employment as Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Occupational Safety and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (4 September 2023) | Viewed by 3819
Special Issue Editors
Interests: digitalization of the labour market and its impact on health, trajectories of precarious employment as determinants of health and health inequalities, mixed-methods research
2. Unit of Occupational Medicine, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 11365 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: health consequences of non-standard employment arrangements; impact of public policies on health human resources; impact of systemic factors on population health and health inequities
2. Unit of Occupational Medicine, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 11365 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: social and behavioral determinants of health, with a focus on how the rise of new forms of employment results in health inequalities especially among vulnerable groups in the labor market
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Non-standard forms of employment, defined as employment arrangements that differ from standard employment, have increased in recent years. Some examples of non-standard forms of employment include temporary employment, part-time and on-call work, multiparty employment relationships (e.g., temporary agency work), dependent self-employment, and home-based and remote work. While such forms of employment have allowed more workers to integrate into the labour market, they could pose considerable challenges for the employment quality, occupational safety and health regulations, work environment, and health and well-being of workers.
Potential topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to the following:
- Trends in non-standard forms of employment and related health outcomes;
- Understudied non-standard forms employment, such as digital labour platform work, dependent self-employment, and remote or home-based work and their relationship with health and well-being;
- Challenges posed by non-standard forms of employment in the application of labour and occupational safety and health law;
- Drivers of non-standard forms of employment and their relationship with health and well-being;
- Mechanisms through which non-standard forms of employment affect health;
- Differential health effects of non-standard forms of employment according to axes of inequality such as gender, age, education, social class, ethnicity, or immigration status;
- Long-term and cumulative effects on workers of non-standard forms of employment; differences and similarities of non-standard forms of employment based on occupation, sector, and geographical location;
- Interventions, regulations, and policies aimed at improving the employment security, income adequacy, and occupational safety and health of workers in non-standard employment arrangements.
Dr. Nuria Matilla-Santander
Dr. Virginia Gunn
Dr. Bertina Kreshpaj
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- employment conditions
- occupational health and safety
- health equity
- new world of work
- decent work
- social determinants of health
