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Elser H, Neophytou AM, Tribett E, Galusha D, Modrek S, Noth EM, Meausoone V, Eisen EA, Cantley LF, Cullen MR. Cohort Profile: The American Manufacturing Cohort (AMC) study. Int J Epidemiol 2020; 48:1412-1422j. [PMID: 31220278 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyz059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Holly Elser
- Division of Epidemiology, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA.,Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA.,Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Economics, San Francisco State University, College of Business, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Elser H, Falconi AM, Bass M, Cullen MR. Blue-collar work and women's health: A systematic review of the evidence from 1990 to 2015. SSM Popul Health 2018; 6:195-244. [PMID: 30417066 PMCID: PMC6215057 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Revised: 08/06/2018] [Accepted: 08/13/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
Abstract
Despite the implications of gender and sex differences for health risks associated with blue-collar work, adverse health outcomes among blue-collar workers has been most frequently studied among men. The present study provides a "state-of-the-field" systematic review of the empiric evidence published on blue-collar women's health. We systematically reviewed literature related to the health of blue-collar women published between January 1, 1990 and December 31, 2015. We limited our review to peer-reviewed studies published in the English language on the health or health behaviors of women who were presently working or had previously worked in a blue-collar job. Studies were eligible for inclusion regardless of the number, age, or geographic region of blue-collar women in the study sample. We retained 177 studies that considered a wide range of health outcomes in study populations from 40 different countries. Overall, these studies suggested inferior health among female blue-collar workers as compared with either blue-collar males or other women. However, we noted several methodological limitations in addition to heterogeneity in study context and design, which inhibited comparison of results across publications. Methodological limitations of the extant literature, alongside the rapidly changing nature of women in the workplace, motivate further study on the health of blue-collar women. Efforts to identify specific mechanisms by which blue-collar work predisposes women to adverse health may be particularly valuable in informing future workplace-based and policy-level interventions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Holly Elser
- School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, 50 University Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University, 1070 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, United States
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- Population Research Librarian, Lane Medical Library & Knowledge Management Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Dr L109, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
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- Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University, 1070 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, United States
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