Association between employment status and self-rated health: Korean working conditions survey

• Published in: Annals of occupational and environmental medicine Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 43 - 7
• Main Authors: Kwon, Kimin, Park, Jae Bum, Lee, Kyung-Jong, Cho, Yoon-Sik
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London BioMed Central 08.09.2016; BioMed Central Ltd; XMLink, Co; 대한직업환경의학회
• Subjects: Employability; Employees; Forecasts and trends; Health attitudes; Influence; Job satisfaction; Labor market; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Occupational health and safety; Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine; Occupations; Public Health; Questionnaires; Research Article; Self employment; Sociodemographics; Work environment; Workers; Working conditions; Working hours; 예방의학; South Korea; Self-rated health; Precarious work; Korean Working Conditions Survey; Employment status
• ISSN: 2052-4374; 2052-4374
• DOI: 10.1186/s40557-016-0126-z

Background This research was conducted with an aim of determining the association between employment status and self-rated health. Methods Using the data from the Third Korean Working Conditions Survey conducted in 2011, We included data from 34,783 respondents, excluding employers, self-employed workers, unpaid family workers, others. Self-rated health was compared according to employment status and a logistic regression analysis was performed. Results Among the 34,783 workers, the number of permanent and non-permanent workers was 27,564 (79.2 %) and 7,219 (20.8 %). The risk that the self-rated health of non-permanent workers was poor was 1.20 times higher when both socio-demographic factors, work environment and work hazards were corrected. Conclusions In this study, perceived health was found to be worse in the non-permanent workers than permanent workers. Additional research should investigate whether other factors mediate the relationship between employment status and perceived health.