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Epitafi per un diari convers i mà rtir
Epitafi per un diari convers i mà rti
El nacimiento de una trágica
CrÃtica de la representació teatral al Teatreneu de Qui té por de Virginia Woolf? d'Edward Albee, traduïda per Jordi Arbonès, publicada a La Vanguardia
Immigrant populations, work and health—a systematic literature review
Objectives This paper summarizes the information on immigrant occupational health available from recent
studies, incorporating varied study designs.
Methods A systematic search was carried out in PubMed employing terms of interest to the study and related
terms supplied by the same search engine. Articles were selected through the following process: (i) reading
the title and abstract, in English or Spanish, for the period 1990–2005, (ii) reading of the entire text of selected
articles; (iii) making a manual search of the relevant citations in the selected articles; (iv) eliminating articles
without a focus on the themes of central interest (immigration, work, and health), and (v) reading and analyzing
the definitive article set. No quality criteria were used in the article selection.
Results The location of studies was not straightforward and required careful thought about the search terms.
The included 48 papers were often multifaceted and difficult to categorize. They generally came from countries
historically associated with immigration and described occupational risk factors, health consequences, and the
social, economic, and cultural influences on worker health. They were also based on data, surveillance, training,
and preventive measures that were inadequate.
Conclusions Increased migration is a reality in industrialized countries all over the world, and it has social,
political, and economic consequences for migrating groups, as well as for their sending and host societies. More
reliable data, targeted appropriate interventions, and enforcement of existing regulations are necessary to improve
the health of immigrant workers. Furthermore, studies in sending and developing countries should be encouraged
to form a more complete understanding of this complex situation
Comparing precarious employment across countries: measurement invariance of the employment precariousness scale for europe (EPRES-E)
Comparing precarious employment (PE) across countries is essential to deepen the understanding of the phenomenon and to learn from country-specific experiences. However, this is hampered by the lack of internationally meaningful measures of PE. We aim to address this point by assessing the measurement invariance (MI) of the Employment Precariousness Scale for Europe (EPRES-E), an adaptation of the EPRES construct in the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS). EPRES-E consists of 13 proxy-indicators sorted into six dimensions: temporariness, disempowerment, vulnerability, wages, exercise of rights, unpredictable working times. Drawing on EWCS-2015, MI of the second-order factor model was tested in a sample of 31,340 formal employees by means of (a) multi-group confirmatory factor analyses, and (b) the substantive exploration of EPRES-E mean scores in each country (...
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