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[Housework, gender and health in the working population]
L Artázcoz1, C Borrell, I Rohlfs
1Institut Municipal de Salud Pública de Barcelona, 08023 Barcelona, Spain.
Objective:
To analyse the relation between domestic workload and self-perceived health status among workers and to examine whether there are gender inequalities.
Methods:
The selected population were the 215 men and 106 women younger than 65 years interviewed in the Terrassa Health Survey, 1998 who had a paid work and were married or cohabiting. Adjusted odds ratios (aOR) by domestic workload, age and occupational social class with their 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated.
Results:
Whereas among men domestic workload was not associated with health status, among women poor self-perceived health status was positively related to household size (aOR = 3.65; 95% IC = 1.06-12.54) and to lack of a person for doing domestic tasks (aOR = 4.43; 95% CI = 1.05-18.62).
Conclusion:
Both household characteristics and having a support for facing domestic tasks play an important role in gender health inequalities.