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Title: The Pro-Family Workplace: Social and Economic Policies and Practices and Their Impacts on Child and Family Health

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Social and economic policies designed to improve working conditions and employee well-being in adulthood have often resulted in the unintentional improvement of the health of children and their parents. Unfortunately, the USA is behind in implementing such policies and is losing ground in the health of its families compared to most other industrialized countries. We present historical patterns of infant mortality and womens life expectancy, both indicators of child and family health, over time and across the USA and other industrialized countries. Using a predominantly ecosocial framework, we review the channels or mechanisms that may link social or economic policy to a physiological change in children and/or their close family members. We continue to review a range of family and labor policies and evidence linking specific family and work policies to child and family health outcomes. We argue that, despite challenges, the identification of social and economic policies that impact the work/family interface and promote family health and well-being is critical and that the conditions which improve health for families will likely require modification in the public policy arena.

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Authors: O'Donnell, Emily M.; Berkman, Lisa F.

Editors: Nancy S. Landale, Susan M. McHale Alan Booth

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Volume Title: Families and Child Health

Publisher: Springer

Publisher Location: New York

Volume: 3

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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