Workplace Discrimination and Health Among Filipinos in the United States

Castro, A. B. de; Gee, Gilbert C.; Takeuchi, David T.

doi:10.2105/ajph.2007.110163

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“…1, 2 Prior studies primarily relied on global measures of discrimination, 2 and few assessed the effects of discrimination in particular settings, such as the workplace. 3–5 The workplace is among the most common settings where individuals report experiencing discrimination 6, 7 and could be particularly deleterious for health. Individuals who experience workplace discrimination report greater work-related stress, 8, 9 which could lead to poorer health outcomes through adoption of unhealthy stress coping mechanisms.…”

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Racial/Ethnic Workplace Discrimination

Chavez

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Lyles

et al. 2015

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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Background Experiences of discrimination are associated with tobacco and alcohol use, and work is a common setting where individuals experience racial/ethnic discrimination. Few studies have evaluated the association between workplace discrimination and these behaviors, and none have described associations across race/ethnicity. Purpose To examine the association between workplace discrimination and tobacco and alcohol use in a large, multistate sample of U.S. adult respondents to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey Reactions to Race Module (2004–2010). Methods Multivariable logistic regression analyses evaluated cross-sectional associations between self-reported workplace discrimination and tobacco (current and daily smoking) and alcohol use (any and heavy use, and binge drinking) among all participants and stratified by race/ethnicity, adjusting for relevant covariates. Data were analyzed in 2013. Results Among respondents, 70,080 completed the workplace discrimination measure. Discrimination was more common among black non-Hispanic (21%), Hispanic (12%), and other race respondents (11%) than white non-Hispanics (4%) (p<0.001). In the total sample, discrimination was associated with current smoking (risk ratio [RR]=1.32, 95% CI=1.19, 1.47), daily smoking (RR=1.41, 95% CI=1.24, 1.61), and heavy drinking (RR=1.11, 95% CI=1.01, 1.22), but not binge or any drinking. Among Hispanics, workplace discrimination was associated with increased heavy and binge drinking, but not any alcohol use or smoking. Workplace discrimination among black non-Hispanics and white Non-Hispanics was associated with increased current and daily smoking, but not alcohol outcomes. Conclusions Workplace discrimination is common, associated with smoking and alcohol use, and merits further policy attention given the impact of these behaviors on morbidity and mortality.

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Racial/Ethnic Workplace Discrimination

Chavez

Ornelas

Lyles

et al. 2015

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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“…For instance, many studies demonstrate that the reporting of racial discrimination in childhood or adulthood is associated with illness. 6,7 A few studies go further, perhaps by specifying discrimination in multiple contexts (e.g., everyday discrimination vs workplace discrimination) 8,9 or by examining the interaction between discrimination and other factors, such as social strains. 10 However, a more complex and potentially more realistic model of racial health inequities can consider how race and racism intersect throughout the life course.…”

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“…8 Historical, racialized events can provide natural experiments from which to study the differential effects of discrimination on health across generations.…”

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A Life Course Perspective on How Racism May Be Related to Health Inequities

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Recent studies show that racism may influence health inequities. As individuals grow from infancy into old age, they encounter social institutions that may create new exposures to racial bias. Yet, few studies have considered this idea fully. We suggest a framework that shows how racism and health inequities may be viewed from a life course perspective. It applies the ideas of agepatterned exposures, sensitive periods, linked lives, latency period, stress proliferation, historic period, and cohorts. It suggests an overarching idea that racism can structure one's time in asset-building contexts (e.g., education) or disadvantaged contexts (e.g., prison). This variation in time and exposure can contribute to racial inequities in life expectancy and other health outcomes across the life course and over generations. (Am J Public Health. 2012;102: 967-974.

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“…Hammond et al (2010) in a study of discrimination among 604 multi-ethnic hospital employees found that African Americans were more likely than other ethnic groups to report frequent and multiple types of discrimination exposure and they also indicated higher levels of depressive symptoms. Several other studies have also shown the negative effects of discrimination on its victims (Roberts et al, 2004;Bhui et al, 2005;De Castro et al, 2008).…”

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Work and well-being

Burke¹

2017

Research Handbook on Work and Well-Being

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This chapter is about work and well-being, setting the stage for those that follow. It examines factors at work that diminish or enhance well-being and what can be done to increase levels of employee well-being at work. THE EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE WORKINGThis book, being about work, is, by its very nature about violence -to the spirit as well as to the body. It is about ulcers as well as accidents. About shouting matches as well as fist fights, about nervous breakdowns as well as kicking the dog around. It is above all (or beneath all) about daily humiliations. To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us. . . It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. (Terkel, 1974, p. xiii) Adults will spend over one-third of their waking hours at work. The average person will spend about 70 000 of their hours working, with some people spending more than 120 000 of their hours working. Some individuals find satisfaction in their work, even continuing to work following their retirement. Others find little satisfaction in their work, some counting the days until they can retire from their work. Some individuals work for free in voluntary organizations, their work often costing them their own money, picking up and distributing food for the poor, building homes for the needy, or planting trees to save the planet.Work does not exist in a vacuum; it takes place in the context of particular labour market policies, employment conditions and work conditions. These factors contribute to health and health disparities. Labour market factors include income levels and income-level disparities; the rich are generally healthier than the poor. Employment conditions include the nature of one's employment -whether one has full-time permanent employment, part-time or temporary employment, precarious employment or no employment.

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Workplace Discrimination and Health Among Filipinos in the United States

Cited by 97 publications

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Racial/Ethnic Workplace Discrimination

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