Mediational Occupational Risk Factors Pertaining to Work Ability According to Age, Gender and Professional Job Type

Inmaculada Mateo-Rodríguez, Emily Caitlin Lily Knox, Coral Oliver-Hernández, Antonio Daponte-Codina and on behalf of the esTAR Group
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Inmaculada Mateo-Rodríguez: Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP), 18011 Granada, Spain
Emily Caitlin Lily Knox: CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), 28209 Madrid, Spain
Coral Oliver-Hernández: Faculty of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Antonio Daponte-Codina: Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP), 18011 Granada, Spain
on behalf of the esTAR Group: esTAR group members: Ana Moncada, Antonio Ranchal, Nuria Queraltó, Mercedes Ramblado, Francisca Enriquez, Amalia Ramos, Rebeca Márquez, Antonio Javier Jiménez, Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Silvia Toro, Alberto Fernández, Andrés Cabrera, Pablo Sánchez.

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 3, 1-10

Abstract: The predictive value of work ability for several health and occupational outcomes is well known. Maintaining the ability to work of all employees has become an important topic in research although some evidence suggests that some groups of workers need greater attention than others. Healthcare workers ( x ¯ = 54.46 ± 5.64 years) attending routine occupational health checkups completed their work ability, occupational risk and sociodemographic measures. An analysis examined whether work ability differed according to gender, age and professional category. Mediation of these relationships by occupational risk variables, such as work–family conflict, was examined. Females and older adults had worse work ability than their counterparts. Professional group was not independently associated. Gender-related differences were mediated by current and historic ergonomic risk, psychosocial risk and work–family conflict. Age-related differences were mediated by violence/discrimination at work. All job risk variables, apart from current ergonomic risk, mediated associations between professional category and work ability. The present study identified the importance of risk variables for the work ability of health workers according to gender, age and professional job type. Perceptions of work–family conflict and violence–discrimination seem particularly important and should be considered when targeting improvements in work ability.

Keywords: work ability; healthcare workers; gender; age; occupational risk; mediation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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