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Papers by Craig Slatin
Organizing and Reorganizing, 2008
Occupational and environmental medicine, 2007
To describe the risk of work injury by socioeconomic status (SES) in hospital workers, and to ass... more To describe the risk of work injury by socioeconomic status (SES) in hospital workers, and to assess whether SES gradient in injury risk is explained by differences in psychosocial, ergonomic or organisational factors at work. Workforce rosters and Occupational Safety and Health Administration injury logs for a 5-year period were obtained from two hospitals in Massachusetts. Job titles were classified into five SES strata on the basis of educational requirements and responsibilities: administrators, professionals, semiprofessionals, skilled and semiskilled workers. 13 selected psychosocial, ergonomic and organisational exposures were assigned to the hospital jobs through the national O*NET database. Rates of injury were analysed as frequency records using the Poisson regression, with job title as the unit of analysis. The risk of injury was modelled using SES alone, each exposure variable alone and then each exposure variable in combination with SES. An overall annual injury rate of...
Several studies have argued that official US statistics regarding occupational injuries are flawe... more Several studies have argued that official US statistics regarding occupational injuries are flawed because of systematic underreporting. This paper contributes to this debate by exploiting quantitative (administrative and survey data), qualitative (documents, interviews and focus groups) and job observation data. This richness of information permits us to better understand both the factors related to occupational injuries and the negative incentives (risks and obstacles) that potentially lead workers to underreport or not to file for workers' compensation. We study this topic in the context of the health care sector with data from four healthcare facilities in northwest Massachusetts.
Qualitative Health Research, 2009
In this article we describe the process of an interdisciplinary case study that examined the soci... more In this article we describe the process of an interdisciplinary case study that examined the social contexts of occupational and general health disparities among health care workers in two sets of New England hospitals and nursing homes. A political economy of the work environment framework guided the study, which incorporated dimensions related to market dynamics, technology, and political and economic power. The purpose of this article is to relate the challenges encountered in occupational health care settings and how these could have impacted the study results. An innovative data collection matrix that guided small-group analysis provided a firm foundation from which to make design modifications to address these challenges. Implications for policy and research include the use of a political and economic framework from which to frame future studies, and the need to maintain rigor while allowing flexibility in design to adapt to challenges in the field.
New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS, 2011
Qualitative Health Research, Nov 1, 2009
In this article we describe the process of an interdisciplinary case study that examined the soci... more In this article we describe the process of an interdisciplinary case study that examined the social contexts of occupational and general health disparities among health care workers in two sets of New England hospitals and nursing homes. A political economy of the work environment framework guided the study, which incorporated dimensions related to market dynamics, technology, and political and economic power. The purpose of this article is to relate the challenges encountered in occupational health care settings and how these could have impacted the study results. An innovative data collection matrix that guided small-group analysis provided a firm foundation from which to make design modifications to address these challenges. Implications for policy and research include the use of a political and economic framework from which to frame future studies, and the need to maintain rigor while allowing flexibility in design to adapt to challenges in the field.
NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 2014
This is an interview with Gary Grant and Naeema Muhammed, leaders of the North Carolina Environme... more This is an interview with Gary Grant and Naeema Muhammed, leaders of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network. Each of them talks about where they grew up, their politicization, how their paths crossed, their work together after Hurricane Floyd, and the unique challenges of organizing for social justice for black communities in the South. We learn of their fight against concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), primarily for the hog trade, and they take us up to North Carolina's Moral Monday protests of 2013 against legislation that threatens voting rights, public education, access to medical services, unemployment benefits, workers rights, occupational and environmental health, and women's access to reproductive health care. We are grateful to these two friends of New Solutions for their contribution to the journal, and we hope that their insights regarding struggles for social and environmental justice can serve as guides for us all.
Organizing and Reorganizing, 2008
Occupational and environmental medicine, 2007
To describe the risk of work injury by socioeconomic status (SES) in hospital workers, and to ass... more To describe the risk of work injury by socioeconomic status (SES) in hospital workers, and to assess whether SES gradient in injury risk is explained by differences in psychosocial, ergonomic or organisational factors at work. Workforce rosters and Occupational Safety and Health Administration injury logs for a 5-year period were obtained from two hospitals in Massachusetts. Job titles were classified into five SES strata on the basis of educational requirements and responsibilities: administrators, professionals, semiprofessionals, skilled and semiskilled workers. 13 selected psychosocial, ergonomic and organisational exposures were assigned to the hospital jobs through the national O*NET database. Rates of injury were analysed as frequency records using the Poisson regression, with job title as the unit of analysis. The risk of injury was modelled using SES alone, each exposure variable alone and then each exposure variable in combination with SES. An overall annual injury rate of...
Several studies have argued that official US statistics regarding occupational injuries are flawe... more Several studies have argued that official US statistics regarding occupational injuries are flawed because of systematic underreporting. This paper contributes to this debate by exploiting quantitative (administrative and survey data), qualitative (documents, interviews and focus groups) and job observation data. This richness of information permits us to better understand both the factors related to occupational injuries and the negative incentives (risks and obstacles) that potentially lead workers to underreport or not to file for workers' compensation. We study this topic in the context of the health care sector with data from four healthcare facilities in northwest Massachusetts.
Qualitative Health Research, 2009
In this article we describe the process of an interdisciplinary case study that examined the soci... more In this article we describe the process of an interdisciplinary case study that examined the social contexts of occupational and general health disparities among health care workers in two sets of New England hospitals and nursing homes. A political economy of the work environment framework guided the study, which incorporated dimensions related to market dynamics, technology, and political and economic power. The purpose of this article is to relate the challenges encountered in occupational health care settings and how these could have impacted the study results. An innovative data collection matrix that guided small-group analysis provided a firm foundation from which to make design modifications to address these challenges. Implications for policy and research include the use of a political and economic framework from which to frame future studies, and the need to maintain rigor while allowing flexibility in design to adapt to challenges in the field.
New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS, 2011
Qualitative Health Research, Nov 1, 2009
In this article we describe the process of an interdisciplinary case study that examined the soci... more In this article we describe the process of an interdisciplinary case study that examined the social contexts of occupational and general health disparities among health care workers in two sets of New England hospitals and nursing homes. A political economy of the work environment framework guided the study, which incorporated dimensions related to market dynamics, technology, and political and economic power. The purpose of this article is to relate the challenges encountered in occupational health care settings and how these could have impacted the study results. An innovative data collection matrix that guided small-group analysis provided a firm foundation from which to make design modifications to address these challenges. Implications for policy and research include the use of a political and economic framework from which to frame future studies, and the need to maintain rigor while allowing flexibility in design to adapt to challenges in the field.
NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 2014
This is an interview with Gary Grant and Naeema Muhammed, leaders of the North Carolina Environme... more This is an interview with Gary Grant and Naeema Muhammed, leaders of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network. Each of them talks about where they grew up, their politicization, how their paths crossed, their work together after Hurricane Floyd, and the unique challenges of organizing for social justice for black communities in the South. We learn of their fight against concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), primarily for the hog trade, and they take us up to North Carolina's Moral Monday protests of 2013 against legislation that threatens voting rights, public education, access to medical services, unemployment benefits, workers rights, occupational and environmental health, and women's access to reproductive health care. We are grateful to these two friends of New Solutions for their contribution to the journal, and we hope that their insights regarding struggles for social and environmental justice can serve as guides for us all.