Julià Mireia, Tarafa Gemma, O'Campo Patricia, Muntaner Carles, Jódar Pere, Benach Joan
Health Inequalities Research Group, Employment Conditions Knowledge Network (GREDS-EMCONET), Department of Political and Social Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Johns Hopkins University - Universitat Pompeu Fabra Public Policy Center, Barcelona, Spain.
Work. 2015;53(2):347-56. doi: 10.3233/WOR-152176.
Informal employment (IE) is one of the least studied employment conditions in public health research, mainly due to the difficulty of its conceptualization and its measurement, producing a lack of a unique concept and a common method of measurement.
The aim of this review is to identify literature on IE in order to improve its definition and methods of measurement, with special attention given to high-income countries, to be able to study the possible impact on health inequalities within and between countries.
A scoping review of definitions and methods of measurement of IE was conducted reviewing relevant databases and grey literature and analyzing selected articles.
We found a wide spectrum of terms for describing IE as well as definitions and methods of measurement. We provide a definition of IE to be used in health inequalities research in high-income countries. Direct methods such as surveys can capture more information about workers and firms in order to estimate IE.
These results can be used in further investigations about the impacts of this IE on health inequalities. Public health research must improve monitoring and analysis of IE in order to know the impacts of this employment condition on health inequalities.
非正规就业（IE）是公共卫生研究中研究最少的就业状况之一，主要是因为其概念化和测量存在困难，导致缺乏一个统一的概念和通用的测量方法。
本综述的目的是识别有关非正规就业的文献，以完善其定义和测量方法，特别关注高收入国家，以便能够研究其对国家内部和国家之间健康不平等的可能影响。
对非正规就业的定义和测量方法进行了范围综述，查阅了相关数据库和灰色文献，并分析了所选文章。
我们发现了用于描述非正规就业的广泛术语以及定义和测量方法。我们提供了一个用于高收入国家健康不平等研究的非正规就业定义。诸如调查等直接方法可以获取有关工人和企业的更多信息，以便估计非正规就业情况。
这些结果可用于进一步调查这种非正规就业对健康不平等的影响。公共卫生研究必须改进对非正规就业的监测和分析，以便了解这种就业状况对健康不平等的影响。
