University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Department of Psychosocial and Community Health, University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, WA, USA.
Ethn Health. 2021 Nov;26(8):1242-1260. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2019.1612517. Epub 2019 May 10.
Ethnic minority and immigrant workers comprise a sizable proportion of the low-wage workforce. They are surprisingly understudied despite their workplace prominence. Factors such as workplace policies, structures, worker-related characteristics, and research designs preclude their comprehensive research participation when studies are conducted in work settings. Consequently, ethnic minority and immigrant workers continue to be under-represented in inquiry and simultaneously over-represented with compromising occupational health risks. The purpose of this paper is to provide strategies to promote the inclusion of ethnic minority and immigrant workers in occupational health research. Using three different research-based examples, we illustrate the benefit of conducting occupational health research in non-workplace settings as a way to ensure research representation of ethnic minority and immigrant workers.
少数民族和移民工人在低薪劳动力中占相当大的比例。尽管他们在工作场所中很突出，但对他们的研究却出人意料地很少。由于工作场所政策、结构、工人相关特征和研究设计等因素，当在工作环境中进行研究时，他们无法全面参与研究。因此，少数民族和移民工人在调查中的代表性仍然不足，同时面临着更大的职业健康风险。本文的目的是提供策略，以促进少数民族和移民工人纳入职业健康研究。我们使用三个不同的基于研究的例子来说明在非工作场所进行职业健康研究的好处，以此确保少数民族和移民工人在研究中的代表性。
