Precarious Employment and Stress: The Biomedical Embodiment of Social Factors. PRESSED Project Study Protocol.

ABSTRACT: The PRESSED project aims to explain the links between a multidimensional measure of precarious employment and stress and health. Studies on social epidemiology have found a clear positive association between precarious employment and health, but the pathways and mechanisms to explain such a relationship are not well-understood. This project aims to fill this gap from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating the social and biomedical standpoints to comprehensively address the complex web of consequences of precarious employment and its effects on workers' stress, health and well-being, including health inequalities. The project objectives are: (1) to analyze the association between multidimensional precarious employment and chronic stress among salaried workers in Barcelona, measured b

SUBMITTER: Bolibar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8042135 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature