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  • Understanding workforce participation as a continuous rather than dichotomous variable: implications for improving workforce health

    Author(s)
    Harris, Elizabeth
    Stewart, Donald
    Harris, Neil
    Ritchie, Jan
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Harris, Neil D.
    Stewart, Donald E.
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    Objective: To explore the changing nature of Australia's potential workforce, and comment on the limitations of existing fragmented infrastructure to address the health needs of all potential workers. Approach: This paper analyses the changing nature of work in Australia and the challenges this presents to existing health infrastructure. This paper argues that there are more than 1.5 million Australians who are currently unemployed, under-employed or potentially employable who should be seen as part of the workforce. Conclusion: Australia cannot afford to have so many people exposed to the significant health risks of ...
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    Objective: To explore the changing nature of Australia's potential workforce, and comment on the limitations of existing fragmented infrastructure to address the health needs of all potential workers. Approach: This paper analyses the changing nature of work in Australia and the challenges this presents to existing health infrastructure. This paper argues that there are more than 1.5 million Australians who are currently unemployed, under-employed or potentially employable who should be seen as part of the workforce. Conclusion: Australia cannot afford to have so many people exposed to the significant health risks of unemployment and underemployment. Implications: Given the changing nature of employment, it may be more appropriate to see employment as a continuous variable from secure full-time employment to systematic social exclusion from the workforce, rather than a dichotomous variable of employed and unemployed. Structural responsibility for the health of the workforce is currently based on services for those in the workforce and those out of the workforce. Transforming these systems will be a complex but necessary task if we are to engage the entire potential workforce in productive activity.
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    Journal Title
    Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Volume
    35
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00646.x
    Subject
    Health care administration
    Applied economics
    Policy and administration
    Epidemiology
    Health services and systems
    Public health
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/37944
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