What work and employment practices constitute healthy and unhealthy jobs?

Robust baseline evidence is needed to understand how work and employment practices contribute to healthy or unhealthy jobs.

We will investigate this through a scoping review of UK and international research, synthesising multidisciplinary evidence to build a comprehensive picture of the relationship between job quality and health.

We will use the seven key features of ‘good work’ and the project’s new Healthy Jobs Framework to identify work and employment practices that constitute a healthy or unhealthy job. This will inform the construction of ideal types of healthy and unhealthy jobs.

In conducting this scoping review, we will produce policy and practitioner briefs that summarise the findings of our review. The articles included in this review will also be collated in a publicly available dataset and the evidence added to the Healthy Jobs Framework interactive tool.

Professor Amy Grove, Dr Sarah Damery, Dr Eli Dutton