Introduction: There is the tendency in occupational health research of approximating the 'changed world of work' with a sole focus on the intrinsic characteristics of the work task, encompassing the job content and working ...

BACKGROUND: Precarious employment is becoming an increasingly important social determinant of health inequalities among workers. The way in which contemporary employment arrangements and their health consequences are ...

Objective: The aim of this article was to examine the relationship between precarious employment (PE), welfare states (WS) and mental health in Europe from a gender perspective. Methods: Data were derived from the European ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess differences in mortality rates between social security statuses in two independent samples of Belgian and Spanish male workers. METHODS: Study of two retrospective cohorts (Belgium, n=23,607; Spain, ...

Background. In the aftermath of the 2008 Great Recession, youth unemployment rates in the Brussels Capital Region (BCR) increased. The aim of this study is firstly to investigate the evolution of the mental health gap ...