Category Archives: Occupation

Do employees receive recommended preventive health services?

Large numbers of Americans receive their health care through insurance and wellness plans sponsored by their employers.  New work by Rundle and colleagues (full text here) describes a method that employers can use to analyze their medical claims data to … Continue reading

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Mental illness, drinking, and the social division and structure of labor in the United States: 2003-2015

New research by Seth Prins, Sarah McKetta, Jonathan Platt, Carles Muntaner, Kerry Keyes, and Lisa Bates shows the ways that the social division and structure of labor are associated with mental illness and drinking.  Their work was published online in … Continue reading

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Mortality and Work-Family Trajectories for U.S. Women, 1968–2013

Cluster member Sarah McKetta, working with Seth Prins, Jonathan Platt, Lisa Bates, and Katherine Keyes, recently published research examining social roles of US women and how the patterning of these roles impacts mortality. Changes in employment patterns in the 20th … Continue reading

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Business travel and behavioral and mental health

In new work, Rundle and colleagues find that extensive business travel is associated with poorer behavioral and mental health – smoking, sedentary behavior, trouble sleeping, alcohol dependence, depression and anxiety.  The paper was recently published online at the Journal of Occupational … Continue reading

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From snapshots to movies: Labor-force sequences and health trajectories in old age

On Wednesday Feb 1 Social Epi Cluster Faculty member Esteban Calvo, will give a talk entitled, “From snapshots to movies: Labor-force sequences and health trajectories in old age”. When a continuous motion is represented as a series of snapshots of … Continue reading

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