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Employment status and mortality among Korean men over a 13-year period
- Title
- Employment status and mortality among Korean men over a 13-year period
- Authors
- Lim, Dohee; Kong, Kyoung Ae; Park, Hyesook; Jung-Choi, Kyunghee
- Ewha Authors
- 박혜숙; 최경희; 공경애
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 박혜숙; 최경희; 공경애
- Issue Date
- 2021
- Journal Title
- EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH
- ISSN
- 2092-7193
- Citation
- EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH vol. 43
- Keywords
- Employment status; Mortality; Precarious employee; Petty bourgeoisie
- Publisher
- KOREAN SOC EPIDEMIOLOGY
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- OBJECTIVES: This study explored the effect of employment status on mortality over a 13-year period in Korean men. METHODS: Data were used from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study from 1999 to 2012. This study started with 2,737 subjects and included employed men in good health, aged 30-69 years. Deaths were tracked for 13 years from 2000 to 2012. Employment status classifications were: (1) regular employees, (2) precarious employees, (3) petty bourgeoisie, and (4) employers. Hazard ratios (HRs) were calculated using a Cox proportional hazards model, and were adjusted for age, education, income, and occupation, with regular employees as the reference category. To examine the effect of employment status and include employment history, the risk ratios of mortality were measured using the Poisson regression model, considering the duration of each employment and using 0 years as the reference category. RESULTS: Over the course of the 13-year study, being a precarious employee (HR, 1.84) or petty bourgeoisie (HR, 1.87) at a particular point in time had a negative effect on mortality when compared with regular employees. Furthermore, working as precarious employees or petty bourgeoisie had no positive effect on mortality. A positive effect was observed, however, on the overall mortality risk for regular employees. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that a healthy social policy is needed for precarious employees and petty bourgeoisie to avoid disadvantages in the workplace and the social safety net.
- DOI
- 10.4178/epih.e2021055
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- 의과대학 > 의학과 > Journal papers
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