Maternal precarious employment and child overweight/obesity in the United States.

Autor: Zhuang CC; Peking University School of Economics, Beijing, China; University of Washington, Department of Economics, WA, USA., Jones-Smith JC; University of Washington School of Public Health, Department of Health Systems and Population Health, Seattle, WA, USA; University of Washington School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Seattle, WA, USA., Andrea SB; Oregon Health & Science University-Portland State University, School of Public Health, Portland, OR, USA., Hajat A; University of Washington School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Seattle, WA, USA., Oddo VM; University of Illinois Chicago, College of Applied Health Sciences, Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: voddo@uic.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Preventive medicine [Prev Med] 2023 Apr; Vol. 169, pp. 107471. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Mar 02.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107471
Abstrakt: Precarious employment has increased in the United States and is now recognized as an important social determinant of health. Women are disproportionately employed in precarious jobs and are largely responsible for caretaking, which could deleteriously affect child weight. We utilized data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth adult and child cohorts (1996-2016; N = 4453) and identified 13 survey indicators to operationalize 7 dimensions of precarious employment (score range: 0-7, 7 indicating the most precarious): material rewards, working-time arrangements, stability, workers' rights, collective organization, interpersonal relations, and training. We estimated the association between maternal precarious employment and incident child overweight/obesity (BMI ≥85th percentile) using adjusted Poisson models. Between 1996 and 2016, the average age-adjusted precarious employment score among mothers was 3.7 (Standard Error [SE] = 0.02) and the average prevalence of children with overweight/obesity was 26.2% (SE = 0.5%). Higher maternal precarious employment was associated with a 10% higher incidence of children having overweight/obesity (Confidence Interval: 1.05, 1.14). A higher incidence of childhood overweight/obesity may have important implications at the population-level, due to the long-term health consequences of child obesity into adulthood. Policies to reduce employment precariousness should be considered and monitored for impacts on childhood obesity.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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