Employment in the neighborhoods of Barcelona: health effects of an active labor market program in Southern Europe
| Autor: | Vanessa Puig-Barrachina, Eva Clotet, Carme Borrell, Lucía Artazcoz, Davide Malmusi, Patricia González-Marín, Xavier Bartoll, Africa Cardona, Imma Cortès-Franch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Employment
Male Social characteristics active labor market policies Health Status media_common.quotation_subject Gee 03 medical and health sciences symbols.namesake 0302 clinical medicine 0502 economics and business Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Poisson regression self-perceived health 050207 economics Generalized estimating equation media_common evaluation business.industry 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Active Labor Mental health Confidence interval Europe Mental Health Unemployment symbols Female business mental health Demography |
| Zdroj: | JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH r-IIB SANT PAU. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Sant Pau instname r-IIB SANT PAU: Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Sant Pau Institut dInvestigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau) |
| ISSN: | 1741-3842 |
| Popis: | Background The aim of this study was to analyze the changes in self-perceived health status and mental health among participants in an active labour market policy (ALMP) of Barcelona, and to assess whether the results differed according to the participants’ social characteristics and their program trajectories. Methods A pre–post intervention study was designed, including unemployed people participating in a return-to-work ALMP in 13 deprived neighborhoods of Barcelona; using one survey upon entering the program (pre), and another 1 year later (post). We assessed the prevalence of poor self-perceived health status and poor mental health (Goldberg-12 questionnaire) in both periods of time. We fit five Poisson regression models using generalized estimating equations (GEE) to measure changes in self-perceived health and mental health between pre- and post-intervention. Results About 696 individuals (48% women) participated in the study, mainly manual workers. In both sexes, mental health improved (prevalence ratio [PR]—comparing post- and pre-periods for women: 0.49, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.39–0.61 and men: PR: 0.41, 95% CI: 0.32–0.53), whereas self-perceived health status remained stable or worsened. Men who remained unemployed reported poorer self-perceived health status, while no such association was observed among women. Conclusions This study shows a mental health improvement among male and female participants. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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