@article{ref1,
title="Relationship of occupational category with risk of physical and mental health problems",
journal="Safety and health at work",
year="2019",
author="Ahn, Jaeouk and Kim, Nam-Soo and Lee, Byung-Kook and Park, Jungsun and Kim, Yangho",
volume="10",
number="4",
pages="504-511",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: We evaluated the physical and mental health problems of waged workers in Korea who had different classes of occupation. <br><br>METHODS: We used data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2007-2017) to examine 22,788 workers who were waged employees and categorized these workers into 5 occupational classes. <br><br>RESULTS: &quot;Unskilled manual workers&quot; were more likely to be older, less educated, have lower monthly income, and work fewer hours per week. Among men and relative to &quot;managers and professionals&quot; (reference group), &quot;skilled manual workers&quot; were more likely to have physician-diagnosed osteoarthritis, &quot;clerks&quot; were less likely to report suicidal ideation, and &quot;unskilled manual workers&quot; were more likely to report suicidal ideation. Among women and relative to &quot;managers and professionals&quot; (reference group), &quot;service and sales workers&quot; and &quot;unskilled manual workers&quot; were more likely to report physician-diagnosed osteoarthritis, depressive feelings, and suicidal ideation. However, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases did not differ among the occupational classes for men and women. <br><br>CONCLUSION: We identified differences between men and women and among those in different occupational classes regarding employment status, physical health, and mental health. &quot;Unskilled manual workers&quot; of both genders were more likely to be older, less educated, have less monthly income, work fewer hours per week, and have suicidal ideation. Female &quot;service and sales workers&quot; were more likely to have osteoarthritis, depressive feelings, and suicidal ideation.<br><br>© 2019 The Authors.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2093-7911",
doi="10.1016/j.shaw.2019.07.007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2019.07.007"
}