Carmen Mache no work as part of the report on The State of Health and the Health System in Spain “, in which, on this occasion, it addresses the issue of occupational health.
Past few centuries that we know the relationship between work and health. Work on an important health determinant and is a major factor that inequalities in health.
The work is never neutral to the health can be harmful or privilege may be a promoter of it. Has, in fact, a positive potential on the well-being, not only for the monetary compensation but also involves its conceptualization as a social fact that contributes to the achievement of individuals and the progress of the community. The performance of work structuring can allow time to establish relationships with others develop a creative, social identity and ensure lasting personal and family security.
In addition, work activity associated with exposure during a substantial part of life very different risk factors, with immediate and delayed effects on health and welfare of the worker. Work accidents, musculoskeletal problems, allergies, premature aging and cancer are examples of changes whose causes can be found in working conditions.
Similarly, unemployment also damages the health of people; a large number of scientific researches have clearly shown how the health of the unemployed is worse than those in work. Unemployed people die earlier, get sick more, have more psychological problems, their lifestyles are most harmful and quality of life is worse. In addition, known to social vulnerability, have no unemployment insurance, health worsens.
Thus, according to the report Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health, prepared by the Commission on Social Determinants of Health of the WHO in 2005, “differences in health status and life expectancy between citizens of different countries and even within a country, are a consequence of the social environment they are born, live, grow, work and age.”
However, labor as a determinant of human health has not been in public health policies of our country, and this is a situation that does not correspond to a social model appropriate to the present time.
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