Does employment security modify the effect of housing affordability on mental health? Bentley, Rebecca, Baker, Emma, LaMontagne, Anthony, King, Tania, Mason, Kate and Kavanagh, Anne 2016, Does employment security modify the effect of housing affordability on mental health?, SSM - Population Health, vol. 2, pp. 778-783, doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.09.003. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads lamontagne-doesemployment-2016.pdf Published version application/pdf 455.11KB 225 Title Does employment security modify the effect of housing affordability on mental health? Author(s) Bentley, Rebecca Baker, Emma LaMontagne, Anthony orcid.org/0000-0002-5811-5906 King, Tania Mason, Kate Kavanagh, Anne Journal name SSM - Population Health Volume number 2 Start page 778 End page 783 Total pages 6 Publisher Elsevier Place of publication Amsterdam, The Netherlands Publication date 2016-12 ISSN 2352-8273 Summary This paper uses longitudinal data to examine the interrelationship between two central social determinants of mental health – employment security and housing affordability. Data from ten annual waves of the longitudinal Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey (which commenced in 2000/1 and is ongoing) were analysed using fixed-effects longitudinal linear regression. Change in the SF-36 Mental Component Summary (MCS) score of working age individuals (25–64 years) (51,885 observations of 10,776 people), associated with changes in housing affordability was examined. Models were adjusted for income, age, survey year, experience of serious injury/illness and separation/divorce. We tested for an additive interaction between the security of a household's employment arrangements and housing affordability. People in insecurely employed households appear more vulnerable than people in securely employed households to negative mental health effects of housing becoming unaffordable. In adjusted models, people in insecurely employed households whose housing became unaffordable experienced a decline in mental health (B=−1.06, 95% CI −1.75 to −0.38) while people in securely employed households experienced no difference on average. To progress our understanding of the Social Determinants of Health this analysis provides evidence of the need to bridge the (largely artificial) separation of social determinants, and understand how they are related. Language eng DOI 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.09.003 Field of Research 111714 Mental Health Socio Economic Objective 920410 Mental Health HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2016, The Authors Free to Read? Yes Use Rights Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30088611 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 09 Nov 2016, 09:29:20 EST Thu, 10 Nov 2016, 04:00:23 EST Thu, 10 Nov 2016, 07:02:53 EST Thu, 12 Jan 2017, 05:05:34 EST Mon, 23 Jan 2017, 09:06:22 EST Mon, 23 Jan 2017, 09:12:11 EST Mon, 23 Jan 2017, 09:14:15 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 12:18:20 EST Sat, 29 Aug 2020, 02:40:56 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 7 times in TR Web of Science Cited 8 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 404 Abstract Views, 226 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 09 Nov 2016, 09:29:20 EST

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