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Item Ahonen et al. Respond(American Public Health Association, 2018-06-06) Ahonen, Emily Q.; Fujishiro, Kaori; Flynn, Michael; Cunningham, Thomas; Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public HealthItem Flynn et al. Respond(American Public Health Association, 2018-09) Flynn, Michael A.; Cunningham, Thomas R.; Ahonen, Emily Q.; Fujishiro, Kaori; Environmental Health Science, School of Public HealthComment on Work as an Inclusive Part of Population Health Inequities Research and Prevention. [Am J Public Health. 2018] New Horizons for Occupational Health Surveillance. [Am J Public Health. 2018]Item Life-course and population health perspectives to fill gaps in migrant health research(FrancoAngeli, 2020) Ahonen, Emily Q.; Fujishiro, Kaori; Environmental Health Science, School of Public HealthThis article highlights categories and dichotomies used in the study of the health of migrants, including migrant motivation, migrant type, pre- and post-migration time periods, and health as biomedically or socially determined. The authors suggest that the full spectrum of migrants and migration be considered more thoroughly in order to improve our understanding of migrant health. This paper challenges simple conceptions of migration, mobility, and migrant experience. To fill gaps in knowledge left by these conceptions, researchers must recognize the decisions migrants make as a process which plays out both over time (in migrant life-courses) and also across personal, national, and international contexts which connect the individual to larger structures and phenomena. The authors argue that, in this reality, research questions related to migrant health are best addressed using life-course perspectives which recognize health as a continuum of socially-constructed statuses.Item Poor-quality Employment and Health: How a Welfare Regime Typology with a Gender Lens Illuminates a Different Work-Health Relationship for Men and Women(Elsevier, 2021) Fujishiro, Kaori; Ahonen, Emily Q.; Winkler, Megan; Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public HealthIn the growing literature on employment quality and health, poor quality of employment is generally associated with poor health. However, this association may not be uniform for men and women if unpaid caregiving labor is taken into consideration. How paid and unpaid labor is performed varies across societies because of differences in both state support for families and labor market penalties for women. Applying a gender lens to a welfare regime typology, we investigated the relationship between poor-quality employment and poor health for men and women. For each of five welfare regime types, we hypothesized if men or women would be more strongly affected by poor-quality employment based on the regime’s family support policies and labor practices. Our analysis of 18 countries using the 2015 European and American Working Conditions Surveys data largely supported our hypotheses. In countries that support traditional gender roles with high state expenditure and have labor markets that penalize women, the association between poor-quality employment and health was stronger for men. The association was stronger for women in countries that rely on women to provide unpaid caregiving without substantial state support. In countries with apparently gender-neutral expectations for both paid work and unpaid caregiving work, no difference was found between men and women in the association of poor-quality employment with poor health. We discuss the importance of institutional perspectives to understand work as a gendered experience that impacts health. We suggest more comprehensive welfare regime typologies that recognize women both as caregivers and workers. Expanding the scope of research on work and health to include this integrated view of life could make a stride toward gender health equity.Item Sociopolitical values and social institutions: Studying work and health equity through the lens of political economy(Elsevier, 2021-06) Fujishiro, Kaori; Ahonen, Emily Q.; Gimeno Ruiz de Porras, David; Chen, I-Chen; Benavides, Fernando G.; Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public HealthWork contributes to health and health inequity in complex ways. The traditional exposure-disease framework used in occupational health research is not equipped to address societal contexts in which work is embedded. The political economy approach to public health directly examines macro-level societal contexts, but the attention to work in this literature is mostly on unemployment. As a result, we have limited understanding of work as a social determinant of health and health inequity. To fill this gap, we propose a conceptual framework that facilitates research on work, health, and health equity in institutional contexts. As an illustration of different social institutions creating different work-related health, we present characteristics of work and health in the United States and the European Union using the 2015 Working Conditions Surveys data. The results also highlight limitations of the traditional exposure-disease approach used in occupational health research. Applying the proposed framework, we discuss how work and health could be investigated from a broader perspective that involves multiple social institutions and the sociopolitical values that underpin them. Such investigations would inform policy interventions that are congruent with existing social institutions and thus have the potential for being adopted and effective. Further, we clarify the role of research in generating knowledge that would contribute to institutional change in support of population health and health equity.