title: [The type of employment contract and employees' health and occupational functioning--The review of studies].
abstract: From over 2 decades intensive research concerning temporary workers has been carried out in Europe and outside Europe. Despite having the highest rate of temporary workers in Europe, the studies on this topic are very rare in Poland. The aim of the study was to review the existing research on the relations between temporary work and employees' health and occupational functioning. The main conclusion from this review is that there is a significant inconsistency between the results of the studies included in this review due to such factors as heterogeneity of the group "temporary workers," cultural and generational differences between temporary workers, as well as different economic context in which those studies had been carried out. The main recommendations for the future research is thus to take into account the personal preferences for performing temporary work and to use more complex study design.
authors.affiliation: Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy / Central Institute for Labour Protection - National Research Institute,Warszawa, Poland (Zakład Ergonomii, Pracownia Psychologii Społecznej / Ergonomics Department, Laboratory of Social Psychology). dozol@ciop.pl.
authors.forename: Dorota
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Żołnierczyk-Zreda
mesh_terms: D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009790:Occupations / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011044:Poland; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016526:Workload / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: accidents; physical and psychological health; quality of working life; sickness absence; standard employment; temporary work