Impact of precarious work on neighborhood health: Concept mapping by a community/academic partnership

Abstract

Objective: As part of community-based participatory research (CBPR) examining precarious employment and community health, academic, and community researchers used concept mapping to explore how residents in two high hardship neighborhoods perceive the impact of work on health.Methods: Between January and May 2017, 292 individuals who lived or worked in two contiguous Chicago neighborhoods were engaged in brainstorming, sorting, and rating activities. Multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis were applied, and findings were interpreted by a community-academic partnership.Results: Brainstorming resulted in 55 unique ways that work impacts health, each of which was rated on its perceived impact on health and prevalence in the neighborhood. Four major themes emerged: Healthy Aspects of Work, Systemic/ Structural Injustices, Lack of Control/Exploitation, and Psychological/Physical Stress, which was a multidimensional, cross-cutting theme. Conclusion: These findings provide critical insight into community perceptions of the mechanisms by which work influences health, providing a basis for community-driven, sustainable, work-focused interventions that promote community health. K E Y W O R D S community-based participatory research, total worker, work and health

Leveraging Key Informant Interviews to Inform Intervention Development: The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project

“…These categories were formed based on our concept map generated from formative research in GL, which includes norms, community capacity, individuals' knowledge and skill, and policy. 22 Each suggested intervention could be coded as occurring on multiple levels and multiple intervention types. Lastly, we created an inductive code for community assets and capacity whenever an asset was mentioned during an interview that could be built on for potential intervention efforts (e.g.…”

“…We conducted concept mapping to create a community-driven conceptual framework for the study, which informed subsequent design of the project. 10,21,22 A foundational part of the GLHW project was a community health assessment (see Table 1) including focus groups with residents to explore how they experience work and perceive work impacting the health of residents in their neighborhood, a community survey to understand how residents experience precarious work, and semi-structured key informant interviews with community leaders to identify community resources, assets, and gaps. 23 The focus of this paper is on the key informant interviews that were conducted to identify needs and assets with respect to working in GL.…”

Employment Precarity and Increased Risk of Hazardous Occupational Exposures Among Residents of High Socioeconomic Hardship Neighborhoods

“…Other methods, such as qualitative interviews and job histories, may be preferrable to attain more complete data. In fact, our qualitative research components of this project note that working multiple jobs is a community norm ( Velonis et al , 2020 ; Hebert-Beirne et al , 2021 ).…”

“…The GLHW Project is further described elsewhere ( Hebert-Beirne et al , 2018 ; Velonis et al , 2020 ). Briefly, the project built upon a multiyear academic-community collaboration between the university and residents in Little Village to establish a sustained, student-engaged, reciprocal community-academic partnership with organic community-based organizational leadership for community health inquiry.…”

Salud laboral desde los servicios de la administración sanitaria: las oportunidades de la “perspectiva laboral” para el ejercicio de la salud pública

“…Estas campañas con frecuencia recomiendan a la población evitar la práctica de ejercicio al aire libre o actividades intensas en las horas más calurosas, pero parecen olvidar las recomendaciones para empresas y trabajadores (por ejemplo, del sector construcción) como uno de los colectivos con mayor riesgo (16) . También la investigación-acción participativa en el ámbito local se está revelando como una plataforma útil para la intervención sobre los determinantes laborales de la salud comunitaria (17) .…”