Factors affecting workforce participation and healthy worker biases in U.S. women and men.
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SUBMITTER: Johnson CY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5836747 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
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Factors affecting workforce participation and healthy worker biases in U.S. women and men.
Johnson Candice Y CY Rocheleau Carissa M CM Lawson Christina C CC Grajewski Barbara B Howards Penelope P PP
Annals of epidemiology 20170825 9
<h4>Purpose</h4>To investigate potential attenuation of healthy worker biases in populations in which healthy women of reproductive age opt out of the workforce to provide childcare.<h4>Methods</h4>We used 2013-2015 data from 120,928 U.S. women and men aged 22-44 years participating in the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. We used logistic regression to estimate adjusted prevalence odds ratios (PORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for associations between health and workforce nonparticipat ...[more]
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