Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida (Dr DeRigne); and Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio (Dr Stoddard-Dare, Dr Quinn, Dr Collins).
J Occup Environ Med. 2018 Jun;60(6):481-489. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001300.
This study analyzes the relationship between number of paid sick days and reported preventive health care service usage among older US workers.
Using a 2014 cross-section of 3235 US workers age 49 to 57 from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this study is the first to measure paid sick leave as an ordinal variable in an effort to refine our understanding of sick leave, and identify the ideal range of sick days necessary for people to access preventive health care services.
We find workers with 10 or more paid sick days have increased odds of reporting five different preventive health care services.
To support worker and public health, policy planners may want to consider the number of paid sick days that are needed before changes in preventive service use are observed.
本研究分析了美国老年工人带薪病假天数与报告的预防性保健服务使用之间的关系。
本研究使用了 2014 年全国青年纵向调查中 3235 名年龄在 49 至 57 岁的美国工人的一个横断面数据，首次将带薪病假作为一个有序变量进行测量，以努力完善我们对病假的理解，并确定人们获得预防性保健服务所需的理想病假天数范围。
我们发现，有 10 天或以上带薪病假的工人报告五种不同的预防性保健服务的几率增加。
为了支持工人和公共卫生，政策制定者可能需要考虑在观察到预防性服务使用的变化之前，需要多少天的带薪病假。
