title: Association between socio-demographic, psychosocial, material and occupational factors and self-reported health among workers in Europe.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aim of this study was to explore the associations between socio-demographic, psychosocial, material and occupational factors and self-reported health (SRH) in the European working population. Another objective was to examine whether these associations varied according to occupation and country.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was based on data from the European quality of life survey 2007 including 17,005 workers from 31 European countries. SRH was measured using a single item. Factors were classified into four different groups: socio-demographic, psychosocial, material and occupational factors. The associations between these factors and SRH were examined using multilevel logistic regression analyses including interaction tests.
  
  
  RESULTS
  When all four groups of factors were studied together, age, occupation, urbanization level, origin, trust level, social exclusion, material deprivation, financial and neighbourhood problems, access to medical services, quality of public services, psychological job demands, job reward, work-life imbalance and dangerous/unhealthy working conditions were associated with poor SRH. Almost no differences were found in these associations according to occupation and country.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Various factors were associated with poor SRH. This study gave a first European overview of the associations between socio-demographic, psychosocial, material and occupational factors and SRH in Europe and could provide better advice to policy-makers at a European level.
authors.affiliation: INSERM, U1018-Team11, CESP Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Epidemiology of Occupational and Social Determinants of Health Team, Hôpital Paul Brousse, Bâtiment. 15/16, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, Villejuif 94807, France Université Paris-Sud, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France Université de Versailles St-Quentin, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France.
authors.forename: Stefanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schütte
authors.affiliation: INSERM, U1018-Team11, CESP Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Epidemiology of Occupational and Social Determinants of Health Team, Hôpital Paul Brousse, Bâtiment. 15/16, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, Villejuif 94807, France Université Paris-Sud, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France Université de Versailles St-Quentin, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France.
authors.forename: Jean-François
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Chastang
authors.affiliation: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: Agnès
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parent-Thirion
authors.affiliation: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: Greet
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vermeylen
authors.affiliation: INSERM, U1018-Team11, CESP Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Epidemiology of Occupational and Social Determinants of Health Team, Hôpital Paul Brousse, Bâtiment. 15/16, 16 Avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, Villejuif 94807, France Université Paris-Sud, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France Université de Versailles St-Quentin, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Niedhammer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003710:Demography; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D009790:Occupations; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011788:Quality of Life; D057566:Self Report; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Europe; material factors; occupational factors; psychosocial factors; self-reported health; socio-demographic factors