Martinez, Maria Carmen Fischer, Frida Marina
Published in
International journal of environmental research and public health
Employees with impaired work ability might be at higher risk of remaining shorter in the job than those with adequate work ability. The aim of the study was to establish whether work ability plays a role in job survival. Four-year follow-up (2008-2012) study of 1037 employees of a hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. Work ability was categorized as "adeq...
lee, chia-wen weidong, wu yang, cheng-fu
perceptions of training and tries to identify what factors influence their perceptions. The results show that employees do not attach enough value to vocational training. Urban registration, higher education, and management positions correspond with higher valuation of training, but length of service has a negative effect on their valuation. The di...
Carr, Deborah Luth, Elizabeth A.
This review proposes that the end of life is a uniquely contemporary life course stage. Epidemiologic, technological, and cultural shifts over the past two centuries have created a context in which dying has shifted from a sudden and unexpected event to a protracted, anticipated transition following an incurable chronic illness. The emergence of an...
Fosse, Ethan Winship, Christopher
Published in
Annual Review of Sociology
Age-period-cohort (APC) analysis has a long, controversial history in sociology and related fields. Despite the existence of hundreds, if not thousands, of articles and dozens of books, there is little agreement on how to adequately analyze APC data. This article begins with a brief overview of APC analysis, discussing how one can interpret APC eff...
Gauthier, Jacques-Antoine Viry, Gil
Published in
Swiss Journal of Sociology
In a context of increasing pluralization and individualization of family forms, families would often develop through (individual) spatial mobility. This challenges a dominant view of the family that emphasises spatial proximity and residential stability in a conducive environment for family development. Using data from the Swiss survey Family tiMes...
pruitt, cenate
version of the country boy, fully-grown but rejecting the social and familial responsibilities of the other archetypes. These narratives simultaneously challenge some aspects of hegemonic masculinity (urbanity, white-collar labor) while reinforcing others (whiteness, heterosexuality).
Santos, S Zugna, D Pizzi, C Richiardi, L
Published in
Journal of developmental origins of health and disease
In epidemiologic analytical studies, the primary goal is to obtain a valid and precise estimate of the effect of the exposure of interest on a given outcome in the population under study. A crucial source of violation of the internal validity of a study involves bias arising from confounding, which is always a challenge in observational research, i...
Caputo, Jennifer
Published in
Journal of health and social behavior
Although many studies have examined contemporary increases in parent-adult child coresidence, questions about what this demographic shift means for the well-being of parents remain. This article draws on insights from the life course perspective to investigate the relationship between parent-adult child coresidence and parental mental health among ...
Zeki Al Hazzouri, Adina Vittinghoff, Eric Zhang, Yiyi Pletcher, Mark J Moran, Andrew E Bibbins-Domingo, Kirsten Golden, Sherita H Yaffe, Kristine
Published in
International journal of epidemiology
In designing prevention strategies, it may be useful to understand how early and midlife cardiovascular disease risk factor (CVDRF) exposures affect outcomes that primarily occur in mid to late life. Few single US cohorts have followed participants from early adulthood to late life. We pooled four prospective cohorts that represent segments of the ...
Nomaguchi, Kei Fettro, Marshal Neal
Published in
Journal of marriage and the family
We examine the role of job characteristics in influencing variation in mothers' work-family conflict by childrearing stage. Although researchers generally contend that having younger children is related to greater work-family conflict, examination of this association is limited. Using data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Developm...