Not all hours are equal: could time be a social determinant of health?
dc.contributor.author | Strazdins, Lyndall | |
dc.contributor.author | Welsh, Jennifer | |
dc.contributor.author | Korda, Rosemary | |
dc.contributor.author | Broom, Dorothy | |
dc.contributor.author | Paolucci, Francesco | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-10-20T04:21:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-10-20T04:21:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | Time can be thought of as a resource that people need for good health. Healthy behaviour, accessing health services, working, resting and caring all require time. Like other resources, time is socially shaped, but its relevance to health and health inequality is yet to be established. Drawing from sociology and political economy, we set out the theoretical basis for two measures of time relevant to contemporary, market-based societies. We measure amount of time spent on care and work (paid and unpaid) and the intensity of time, which refers to rushing, effort and speed. Using data from wave 9 (N = 9177) of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia Survey we found that time poverty (> 80 h per week on care and work) and often or always rushing are barriers to physical activity and rushing is associated with poorer self-rated and mental health. Exploring their social patterning, we find that time-poor people have higher incomes and more time control. In contrast, rushing is linked to being a woman, lone parenthood, disability, lack of control and work-family conflicts. We supply a methodology to support quantitative investigations of time, and our findings underline time's dimensionality, social distribution and potential to influence health. | en_AU |
dc.description.sponsorship | The research was supported by an Australian Research Council linkage grant LP100100106 in partner-ship with the Department of Social Services (DSS) and Sydney West Area Heath Service (SWAHS). Thefindings and views reported in this article are those of the authors and should not be attributed to DSS,SWAHS and cannot be taken in any way as expressions of government policy or the Melbourne Institute.Lyndall Strazdins is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship FT110100686. | en_AU |
dc.identifier.issn | 0141-9889 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109350 | |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_AU |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP100100106 | en_AU |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT110100686 | en_AU |
dc.rights | © 2015 The Authors. Sociology of Health & Illness published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundati on for SHIL.This is an open access ar ticle under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permitsuse and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications oradaptations are made. | en_AU |
dc.source | Sociology of health & illness | en_AU |
dc.subject | gender inequalities | en_AU |
dc.subject | mental health | en_AU |
dc.subject | physical activity | en_AU |
dc.subject | social determinants of health | en_AU |
dc.subject | time poverty | en_AU |
dc.subject | time pressure | en_AU |
dc.subject | work and family | en_AU |
dc.subject | adolescent | en_AU |
dc.subject | adult | en_AU |
dc.subject | aged | en_AU |
dc.subject | australia | en_AU |
dc.subject | family characteristics | en_AU |
dc.subject | female | en_AU |
dc.subject | humans | en_AU |
dc.subject | male | en_AU |
dc.subject | mental health | en_AU |
dc.subject | middle aged | en_AU |
dc.subject | sex factors | en_AU |
dc.subject | social theory | en_AU |
dc.subject | socioeconomic factors | en_AU |
dc.subject | surveys and questionnaires | en_AU |
dc.subject | time factors | en_AU |
dc.subject | young adult | en_AU |
dc.subject | health status | en_AU |
dc.subject | social determinants of health | en_AU |
dc.title | Not all hours are equal: could time be a social determinant of health? | en_AU |
dc.type | Journal article | en_AU |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 42 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 21 | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Strazdins, L., National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Welsh, J., National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Korda, R., National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Broom, D., National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoremail | Lyndall.Strazdins@anu.edu.au | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | u8901581 | en_AU |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 38 | en_AU |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1111/1467-9566.12300 | en_AU |
local.identifier.essn | 1467-9566 | en_AU |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u1005913 | en_AU |
local.publisher.url | http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/ | en_AU |
local.type.status | Published Version | en_AU |
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