International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume 14, Issue 10, 2017

Social hazards as manifested workplace discrimination and health (Vietnamese and Ukrainian female and male migrants in Czechia) (Article) (Open Access)

Drbohlav D. , Dzúrová D.*
  • a Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, Prague 2, 128 43, Czech Republic
  • b Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, Prague 2, 128 43, Czech Republic

Abstract

Social hazards as one of the dimensions of workplace discrimination are a potential social determinant of health inequalities. The aim of this study was to investigate relations between self-reported health and social hazard characteristics (defined as—discrimination as such, violence or threat of violence, time pressure or work overload and risk of accident) among Vietnamese and Ukrainian migrants (males and females) in Czechia by age, education level and marital status. This study is based on data from a survey of 669 immigrants in Czechia in 2013. Logistic regression analysis indicates that the given independent variables (given social hazards and socio-demographic characteristics), as predictors of a quality of self-reported health are more important for immigrant females than for males, irrespective of citizenship, albeit only for some of them and to differing extents. We found out that being exposed to the selected social hazards in the workplace leads to worsening self-rated health, especially for females. On the other hand, there was no statistically significant relationship found between poor self-rated health and discrimination as such. Reality calls for more research and, consequently, better policies and practices in the field of health inequalities. © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Author Keywords

Logistic regression Czechia Vietnamese and Ukrainian immigrants Questionnaire survey Self-reported health Social hazards discrimination Workplace

Index Keywords

education Vietnam immigrant questionnaire survey regression analysis independent variable human Self Report middle aged violence Marital Status health status Ukraine Czech Republic marriage Surveys and Questionnaires Young Adult Humans migrant workplace male Emigrants and Immigrants female Viet Nam Socioeconomic Factors socioeconomics questionnaire accident adult human experiment migration Prejudice Transients and Migrants Ukrainian (citizen) citizenship public health

Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85031407511&doi=10.3390%2fijerph14101207&partnerID=40&md5=77678d9b8ab8a073b01800b6145ae882

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph14101207
ISSN: 16617827
Cited by: 2
Original Language: English