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Understanding Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities in Emerging Work Contexts

ReHaB Core ⟩ MSOP Lab ⟩

The project aims to learn how the effects of emergent work intersect with workers’ ability to flourish and live meaningful lives as productive individuals in their communities. He will complete an integrative investigation of objective and subjective facets of emerging work modes and worker health and well-being as a foundation for a future research career in addressing health disparities in minoritized worker populations with disproportionate chronic disease burdens. The project will use data from a California worker database (n=4,104) to identify classes of emergent work and characterize the workers engaged in each type, then explore workers’ distinct health and well-being needs within these emergent work classes using the database and prospectively collected data obtained through qualitative methods.

Funding

Type	Source	Number	Amount
Federal	NIH / National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities	1F32MD020253	$224,868

USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
1540 Alcazar Street, CHP 133, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9003

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The USC entry-level master’s degree program (cost of attendance) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education® (ACOTE®) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). The USC entry-level doctorate in occupational therapy (OTD) degree program (cost of attendance) is accredited by ACOTE®. View our program’s ACOTE® standards public data. ACOTE® c/o the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.®, 7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 510E, Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 652-AOTA, www.acoteonline.org.

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