Work, Health, and Equity

Dear Colleagues,

Work, a complex multifaceted area of research, is closely intertwined with individual and population health. The many facets of work including unemployment, the employment relationship and attendant employment quality, and the day-to-day conditions in any given job can support, detract or combine in myriad ways to impact worker health and well-being over time. In recent decades, research on work and health has grown to encompass political, legal, physical, social, and relational influences which better mirror this complexity. In tandem, evidence has accumulated showing that geographic, economic and social factors create sub-populations—which vary by place and time—who systematically experience clusters of unwanted work-related factors that impede the achievement of health equity, both within and across nations. Work can be purposefully leveraged to support individuals and communities, promote population health, and move closer to health equity through research from multiple disciplines that informs political will and action across multiple sectors of society.  For this Special Issue, we invite theoretical papers, literature reviews, or empirical manuscripts that apply quantitative, qualitative or mixed-methods approaches to this topic with priority given to those with policy relevance for localities, regions, nations, and international guidance bodies.

Dr. Emily Q. Ahonen
Dr. Megan R. Winkler
Dr. Anjum Hajat
Guest Editors

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