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Alejandra Vives

Departament of Public Health, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; GREDS-EMCONET …
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Precarious employment: understanding an emerging social determinant of health

J Benach, A Vives, M Amable… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Employment precariousness is a social determinant that affects the health of workers,
families, and communities. Its recent popularity has been spearheaded by three main …

Welfare states, flexible employment, and health: a critical review

IH Kim, C Muntaner, FV Shahidi, A Vives, C Vanroelen… - Health policy, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this literature review is to identify whether differences between
welfare regimes can manifest diverse consequences for the health effects of insecure and …

The Employment Precariousness Scale (EPRES): psychometric properties of a new tool for epidemiological studies among waged and salaried workers

A Vives, M Amable, M Ferrer, S Moncada… - Occupational and …, 2010 - oem.bmj.com
Background Despite the fact that labour market flexibility has resulted in an expansion of
precarious employment in industrialised countries, to date there is limited empirical …

What should we know about precarious employment and health in 2025? Framing the agenda for the next decade of research

J Benach, A Vives, G Tarafa, C Delclos… - International journal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The generalization of flexible labour markets, the declining influence of unions and the
degradation of social protection has led to the emergence of new forms of employment at the …

[HTML][HTML] Employment precariousness and poor mental health: evidence from Spain on a new social determinant of health

A Vives, M Amable, M Ferrer, S Moncada… - … of environmental and …, 2013 - hindawi.com
Background. Evidence on the health-damaging effects of precarious employment is limited
by the use of one-dimensional approaches focused on employment instability. This study …

Employment precariousness in Spain: prevalence, social distribution, and population-attributable risk percent of poor mental health

A Vives, C Vanroelen, M Amable… - … Journal of Health …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
As a consequence of labor market flexibilization, nonstandard employment has expanded
and standard employment has declined. In many cases, these transformations are best …

[HTML][HTML] Inequalities in life expectancy in six large Latin American cities from the SALURBAL study: an ecological analysis

U Bilal, M Alazraqui, WT Caiaffa… - The lancet planetary …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Latin America is one of the most unequal regions in the world, but
evidence is lacking on the magnitude of health inequalities in urban areas of the region. Our …

[HTML][HTML] Life expectancy and mortality in 363 cities of Latin America

U Bilal, P Hessel, C Perez-Ferrer, YL Michael… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
The concept of a so-called urban advantage in health ignores the possibility of
heterogeneity in health outcomes across cities. Using a harmonized dataset from the …

Measuring employment precariousness in the European Working Conditions Survey: the social distribution in Europe

V Puig-Barrachina, C Vanroelen, A Vives, JM Martínez… - Work, 2014 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: Precarious employment is becoming an increasingly important social
determinant of health inequalities among workers. The way in which contemporary …

COVID-19 and precarious employment: consequences of the evolving crisis

N Matilla-Santander, E Ahonen… - … Journal of Health …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The world of work is facing an ongoing pandemic and an economic downturn with severe
effects worldwide. Workers trapped in precarious employment (PE), both formal and …