Exam 2 - Week 2 Flashcards
What refers to the legal relationship that buyers of labor have to sellers of labor. This relationship determines the obligations, responsibilities and expectations of employers and employees in that relationship?
employment
what is a socially defined group of workers with the assumption of shared skills, knowledge, and tasks?
occupation
What are circumstances under which people perform their jobs and can include how work is organized; location and hours worked; and the physical, chemical, biological, and social factors present?
working environment
What are those factors related to the tasks of a particular job (ergonomic demands)?
job characteristics
What generally refers to the package of employment, occupation, working conditions, and job characteristics (Ahonene et al., 2018?
job or work
What 2 things can a person’s work be?
- health damaging
2. health enhancing
What are the 3 work-related SDOH for education?
- Educational opportunities for further job advancement
- Training on health and safety
- Management support for further education
What are the work-related SDOH for social and community context?
Social integration, prestige, power and meaning
Access to creative work (also linked to better health)
Work-family conflict or Work-spillover (inter-role conflict that arises when responsibilities in one domain interfere with the ability to fulfill responsibilities in the other domain.
Job strain (too little task control + high levels of demand with little workplace social support)
Job stress linked to risky behaviors (alcohol, tobacco, drugs)
Job culture linked to risky behaviors (alcohol, tobacco, drugs)
Institutional Policies: Timing and regularity of working hours and schedules
Presence of policies that give employees control of their work schedules
Family friendly policies
Exposure to discrimination and harassment
Intergenerational transmission of health: physical-psycho-social experiences of working parents’ impact on children (prenatal exposure, salary and benefits sufficient to support children’s health, transmission of environmental hazards from work to home)
Organization Policy: labor unions (presence and strength of)
Supervisor or management support
What are the work-related SDOH for health and health care?
Institutional Policy: Employee benefits: Access to health insurance, sick days, sick leave, sick child care, onsite or access to employee/occupation health department
Salary that supports ability to purchase health-enhancing goods and services, such as gym memberships
Institutional safety policies and regulations
Access to personal protective equipment and supplies
Job characteristics: Physically repetitive or physically demanding work leading to strain-related injuries
Concept of “Health selection”: Health as a personal resource that determines the quality of work one is able to obtain.
People with existing health problems may be more likely to be hired for a job with poor working conditions. Health outcomes might be exacerbated rather than caused by working conditions.
What are the work-related SDOH for neighborhood and build environment?
Chemical, radiological, electrical, explosive, physical, and biological environmental hazards
Noise, heat, vibration, inhaled hazards (such as dust)
Physical dangers (equipment, location/site/geography of work site [in flight, construction sites, in mines])
Risk of, or actual exposure to, violence (and/or presence of security and other protective resources)
What are the work-related SDOH for economic stability?
Institutional Policy: Salary and other financial benefits such as
Pensions or retirement benefits
Unemployment benefits
Job security/insecurity
Career trajectories (upward, static or downward mobility in career)
(Burgard & Lin, 2013)
What is health promotion in the workplace?
a process by which employees learn about primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies to improve their health and quality of life
Why promote health in the workplace?
encourages employees to take responsibility for their health to lower risk of disease and injury.
a. What are Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs? Describe them:
b. What stage in the natural history of disease and level of prevention do these programs address?
a.
1. Taking care of the disease process –> Employees self- manage their diseases by knowing their meds, regimens, side effects, reporting changing symptoms to health care providers, healthy eating, and exercising.
2. taking care of normal activities –> employees self-manage type, amount, and structure of their normal social, work, and home life activities.
3. taking care of their emotions –> employees self-manage emotional changes that occur with chronic illness, such as anger, uncertainty, depression, changed role expectations, and goals.
b. Tertiary prevention
What is occupational health nursing?
the speciality practice that focuses on preventative health care, health promotion, and health restoration within the context of a safe and healthy environment.
