Associations between inflexible job conditions, health and healthcare utilisation in England: retrospective cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the strength of association between having an inflexible job and health-related quality of life and healthcare utilisation; and to explore heterogeneity in the effects by gender, age and area-level deprivation.

Design

Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Setting

Seven waves of the English General Practice Patient Survey between 2012 and 2017.

Participants

1 232 884 people aged 16-64 years and in full-time employment. We measured job inflexibility by inability to take time away from work during usual working hours to seek medical care.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Health-related quality of life (EQ-5D-5L); number of months since the respondent last saw a general practitioner (GP) or nurse; use of out-of-hours general pract

SUBMITTER: Moss C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9723827 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature