The Culture Of Health In Early Care And Education: Workers' Wages, Health, And Job Characteristics.

ABSTRACT: Little is known about the health of the 2.2 million early care and education (ECE) workers responsible for the care, well-being, and success of the approximately ten million children younger than age six enrolled in ECE, or the extent to which ECE environments and employers play a role in workers' health. The purpose of this analysis was to describe the health of an ECE worker sample by wage and by job and center characteristics and to begin to explore the relationships between these factors and workers' health. Our data indicate that ECE workers earn low wages and experience poor mental well-being and high rates of food insecurity. Lower-wage workers worked at centers with more children enrolled in subsidy programs and were more likely to work at centers that did not offer health insuranc

SUBMITTER: Otten JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8164392 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature