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BERDAHL, TERCEIRA ANN Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences in Individual Workplace Injury Risk Trajectories: 1988-1998 American Journal of Public Health 98,12 (December 2008): 2258-2263 Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 6047 Publisher: American Public Health Association Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Objectives. I examined workplace injury risk overtime and across racial/ethnic and gender groups to observe patterns of change and to understand how occupational characteristics and job mobility influence these changes. Methods. I used hierarchical generalized linear models to estimate-individual workplace injury and illness risk overtime ("trajectories") for a cohort of American workers who participated in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1988-1998). Results. Significant temporal variation in injury risk was observed across racial/ ethnic and gender groups. At baseline, White men had a high risk of injury relative to the other groups and experienced the greatest decline over time. Latino men demonstrated a pattern of lower injury risk across time compared with White men. Among both Latinos and non-Latino Whites, women had lower odds of injury than did men. Non-Latino Black women's injury risk was similar to Black men's and greater than that for both Latino and non-Latino White women. Occupational characteristics and job mobility partly explained these differences. Conclusions. Disparities between racial/ethnic and gender groups were dynamic and changed over time. Workplace injury risk was associated with job dimensions such as work schedule, union representation, health insurance, job hours, occupational racial segregation, and occupational environmental hazards. (Am J Public Health. 2008;98:2258-2263. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2006.103135) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] COLEN, CYNTHIA G. GERONIMUS, ARLINE T. BOUND, JOHN JAMES, SHERMAN A. Maternal Upward Socioeconomic Mobility and Black-White Disparities in Infant Birthweight American Journal of Public Health 96, 11 (November 2006): 1-11. Also http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/AJPH.2005.076547v1?ijkey=840edd471ff5d3d1a71f57ed2bf1ce8d50b4cbd5 Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 5380 Publisher: American Public Health Association Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Objectives. We estimate the extent to which upward socioeconomic mobility limits the probability that Black and White women who spent their childhoods in or near poverty will give birth to a low-birthweight baby. Methods. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the 1970 US Census were used to complete a series of logistic regression models. We restricted multivariate analyses to female survey respondents who, at 14 years of age, were living in households in which the income-to-needs ratio did not exceed 200% of poverty. Results. For White women, the probability of giving birth to a low-birthweight baby decreases by 48% for every 1 unit increase in the natural logarithm of adult family income, once the effects of all other covariates are taken into account. For Black women, the relation between adult family income and the probability of low birthweight is also negative; however, this association fails to reach statistical significance. Conclusions. Upward socioeconomic mobility contributes to improved birth outcomes among infants born to White women who were poor as children, but the same does not hold true for their Black counterparts. DARABI, KATHERINE ORTIZ, VILMA Childbearing Among Young Latino Women in the United States American Journal of Public Health 77,1 (February 1987): 25-28 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 ID Number: 519 Publisher: American Public Health Association This analysis is based on 1979 and 1982 data from the NLSY. The purpose of this paper is to compare rates of early childbearing among white, black, Mexican and Puerto Rican young women, and to see how these rates compare after controlling for marital, socioeconomic and generational statuses. A comparison of rates of premarital births among the four racial/ethnic origin groups demonstrate that the Mexican and Puerto Rican adolescents fall in between the extremely low rate of the whites and the extremely high rate of the blacks. Mexican and Puerto Rican adolescents have similar proportions of premarital first births, but differ in their proportions of marital first births. The marital first birth rate for Mexican adolescents is twice that of the Puerto Ricans. The bulk of Mexican first births, like births of whites, occur within marriage. Puerto Rican adolescents, on the other hand, are similar to blacks in that they are more likely to have a first birth outside of marriage than within. These initial racial/ethnic differences in premarital first birth rates are not greatly diminished by a control for SES of the family origin. DARITY, WILLIAM A. JR. Employment Discrimination, Segregation, and Health American Journal of Public Health 93,2 (February 2003): 226-232. Also: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9036683&db=aph Cohort(s): NLS General, NLSY79 ID Number: 3045 Publisher: American Public Health Association Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Certain limitations in the scope and range of the NLSY dataset (among others) are discussed and the need for a single data set that would enable researchers to trace the connections between health outcomes and discrimination is outlined and suggested. [Ed.’s Note]
The author examines available evidence on the effects of exposure to joblessness on emotional well-being according to race and sex. The impact of racism on general health outcomes also is considered, particularly racism in the specific form of wage discrimination. Perceptions of racism and measured exposures to racism may be distinct triggers for adverse health outcomes. Whether the effects of racism are best evaluated on the basis of self-classification or social classification of racial identity is unclear. Some research sorts between the effects of race and socioeconomic status on health. The development of a new longitudinal database will facilitate more accurate identification of connections between racism and negative health effects. (Am J Public Health, 2003;93:226-231) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
MARTIN, SANDRA L. BURCHINAL, MARGARET R. Young Women's Antisocial Behavior and the Later Emotional and Behavioral Health of their Children American Journal of Public Health 82,7 (July 1992): 1007-10 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 ID Number: 1468 Publisher: American Public Health Association Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Questions arise concerning whether youthful female deviant behavior eventually will have negative behavioral and emotional consequences for the later children of these women. Associations between the severity of early female antisocial behavior (including both drug-related and non-drug related offenses) and the later behavioral and emotional health of the children of these women were examined among 1425 mother-child pairs of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Multiple linear regression procedures indicated a significant positive relationship between the severity of the mothers' early non-drug-related offenses and the later severity of the children's scores on the Antisocial, Hyperactive, Anxious/Depressed, Headstrong, Peer Conflict/Social Withdrawal, Immature Dependency, and Total Problem subscales of the Behavior Problem Index. This study demonstrated an association between the antisocial behavior of female youth and the later behavioral and emotional problems of the children of these women. Future research needs to determine the mechanisms underlying the intergenerational transmission of these types of problems so that effective preventive and therapeutic public health practices may be designed and implemented. MCLEAN, R. A. MOON, MARILYN Health, Obesity, and Earnings American Journal of Public Health 70,9 (September 1980): 1006-1009 Cohort(s): Older Men ID Number: 1531 Publisher: American Public Health Association Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Published reports and economic theory suggest that workers' earnings may be affected by their degree of obesity. The purpose of this research was to estimate the size of such an effect. The earnings-obesity hypothesis was tested with data from the NLS of Older Men. Results suggest that, for members of that sample, there is no earnings depressant effect due to obesity. MILLER, DANIEL P. HAN, WEN-JUI Maternal Nonstandard Work Schedules and Adolescent Overweight American Journal of Public Health 98,8 (June 2008) 1495-1502 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 ID Number: 5817 Publisher: American Public Health Association Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Objectives. We investigated whether nonstandard work schedules by mothers was associated with adolescent overweight. Methods. We conducted multiple regression analyses using a sample of mother-child pairs (n=2353) from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the association between the number of years mothers worked at nonstandard schedules and adolescent overweight at age 13 or 14 years. Separate analyses were also conducted by family income and family type. Results. Child's body mass index increased significantly if mothers worked either a few years or many years at nonstandard schedules. Risk of overweight was also significantly associated with 1 to 4 and 10 or more years of maternal nonstandard work schedules. In both cases, results were driven by those families with predicted incomes in the 2nd quartile ("near-poor"), with a few or many years of nonstandard work schedules also associated with increased risk of adolescent overweight in 2-parent families. Conclusions. Results indicate the importance of the overlooked association between maternal nonstandard work schedules and adolescent overweight at age 13 or 14 years. Nonstandard work schedules among near-poor families and in 2-parent families may disrupt the work-family balance, affecting adolescent overweight. MOSSAKOWSKI, KRYSIA N. Influence of Past Unemployment Duration on Symptoms of Depression Among Young Women and Men in the United States American Journal of Public Health 99,10 (October 2009): 1826-1832 Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 6236 Publisher: American Public Health Association Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Objectives. I examined whether unemployment while looking for a job and being out of the labor force while not seeking work have distinct effects on symptoms of depression among young women and men in the United States. I also investigated whether past unemployment duration predicts depressive symptoms. Methods. I used ordinary least squares regression to analyze data from the 1979–1994 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Results. Cross-sectional results suggested that current unemployment status and out-of-the-labor-force status were significantly associated with depressive symptoms at ages 29 through 37 years. The association between being out of the labor force and depressive symptoms was stronger for men. Longitudinal results revealed that past unemployment duration across 15 years of the transition to adulthood significantly predicted depressive symptoms, net of demographics, family background, current socioeconomic status, and prior depressive symptoms. However, duration out of the labor force did not predict depressive symptoms. Conclusions. Longer durations of unemployment predict higher levels of depressive symptoms among young adults. Future research should measure duration longitudinally and distinguish unemployment from being out of the labor force to advance our understanding of socioeconomic mental health disparities. STRONG, LARKIN LOUISE Occupational Injury and Absence from Work Among African American, Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Workers in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth American Journal of Public Health 95,7 (July 2005): 1226-1232 Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 5046 Publisher: American Public Health Association Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Objectives. We examined how race and ethnicity influence injury and illness risk and number of days of work missed as a result of injury or illness. Methods. We fit logistic regression and negative binomial regression models using generalized estimating equations with data from 1988 to 2000 on currently employed African American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic White participants in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Results. Occupational factors—having a blue-collar occupation, working full-time, having longer tenure, working 1 job versus 2, and working the late shift—were associated with increased odds of an occupational injury or illness. Although racial/ethnic minority workers were no more likely than Whites to report an occupational injury or illness, they reported missing more days of work. African American and Hispanic men missed significantly more days of work than non-Hispanic White men, and African American women missed significantly more days of work than non-Hispanic White women. Conclusions. Factors associated with occupational health are multifaceted and complex. Our findings suggest that race/ethnicity influences the duration of work absence owing to injury or illness both indirectly (by influencing workers’ occupational characteristics) and directly (by acting independently of occupational factors). STRONG, LARKIN LOUISE ZIMMERMAN, FREDERICK J. Occupational Injury and Duration of Missed Work Among African American, Hispanic, and Non-Hispanic White Workers American Journal of Public Health 95,7 (July 2005): 1226-1232. Also: http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/95/7/1226 Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 5297 Publisher: American Public Health Association Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Objectives. We examined how race and ethnicity influence injury and illness risk and number of days of work missed as a result of injury or illness. Methods. We fit logistic regression and negative binomial regression models using generalized estimating equations with data from 1988 to 2000 on currently employed African American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic White participants in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Results. Occupational factors—having a blue-collar occupation, working full-time, having longer tenure, working 1 job versus 2, and working the late shift—were associated with increased odds of an occupational injury or illness. Although racial/ethnic minority workers were no more likely than Whites to report an occupational injury or illness, they reported missing more days of work. African American and Hispanic men missed significantly more days of work than non-Hispanic White men, and African American women missed significantly more days of work than non-Hispanic White women. Conclusions. Factors associated with occupational health are multifaceted and complex. Our findings suggest that race/ethnicity influences the duration of work absence owing to injury or illness both indirectly (by influencing workers’ occupational characteristics) and directly (by acting independently of occupational factors). Search returned 15 items. Search Start: 17:36:33 Search Finish: 17:36:33
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