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abstract: 'Considerable policy action has focused on the social patterning of
health, especially the health risks associated with low income. More
recent attention has turned to transport, food systems, workplaces, and
location, and the way their intersections with social position and
income create health inequalities. Time is another dimension that
structures what people do; yet the way in which time contours health has
been neglected. This paper explores (a) how time might influence health,
and (b) the way in which time scarcity complicates current
understandings of health inequalities. Alongside other meanings, time
can be thought of as a health resource. People need time to access
health services, build close relationships, exercise, work, play, care,
and consume all activities that are fundamental to health. There is
evidence that the experience of time pressure is directly related to
poorer mental health. Lack of time is also the main reason people give
for not taking exercise or eating healthy food. Thus, another impact of
time scarcity may be its prevention of activities and behaviours
critical for good health. We investigate whether time scarcity, like
financial pressure, is socially patterned, and thus likely to generate
health inequality. The experience of time scarcity appears to be linked
to variations in time devoted to employment or caring activities closely
bound to gender, status, and life course. One reason that time scarcity
is socially patterned is because of the way in which caring is valued,
allocated, and negotiated in households and the market. Adding paid
employment to caring workloads is now normative, transforming the
allocation of time within families. But caring requires a close
interlocking with others'' needs, which are often urgent and
unpredictable, creating conflict with the linear, scheduled, and
commodified approach to time required in the workplace. We review the
evidence for the possibility that these time pressures are indeed
contributing to socially patterned health inequalities among people
caring for others. We also explore the potential for time scarcity to
compound other sources of health inequality through interplays with
income and space (urban form, transportation networks and place of
residence). People who are both time and income poor, such as lone
mothers, may face compounding barriers to good health, and the urban
geography of time-scarce families represents the embedding of time money
space trade-offs linked to physical location. In Australia and the US,
poorer families are more likely to live in mid to outer suburbs,
necessitating longer commutes to work. These suburbs have inferior
public transport access, and can lack goods and services essential to
health such as shops selling fresh foods. We conclude with a tentative
framework for considering time and health in the context of policy
actions. For example, social policy efforts to increase workforce
participation may be economically necessary, but could have time-related
consequences that alter health. Similarly, if cities are to be made
livable, health promoting, and more equitable, urban designers need to
understand time and time income space trade-offs. Indeed, many social
policies and planning and health interventions involve time dimensions
which, if they remain unacknowledged, could further compound time
pressures and time-related health inequality.'
affiliation: 'Strazdins, L (Corresponding Author), Australian Natl Univ, Natl Ctr
Epidemiol \& Populat Hlth, GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
Strazdins, Lyndall; Broom, Dorothy H.; Banwell, Cathy; Dixon, Jane, Australian Natl
Univ, Natl Ctr Epidemiol \& Populat Hlth, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
Griffin, Amy L., Univ New S Wales, Australian Def Force Acad, Sch Phys Environm
\& Math Sci, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia.
Korda, Rosemary; Paolucci, Francesco, Australian Natl Univ, Australian Ctr Econ
Res Hlth, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
Glover, John, Univ Adelaide, Publ Hlth Informat Dev Unit, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.'
author: Strazdins, Lyndall and Griffin, Amy L. and Broom, Dorothy H. and Banwell,
Cathy and Korda, Rosemary and Dixon, Jane and Paolucci, Francesco and Glover, John
author-email: 'Lyndall.Strazdins@anu.edu.au
a.griffin@adfa.edu.au
Dorothy.Broom@anu.edu.au
Cathy.Banwell@anu.edu.au
Rosemary.Korda@anu.edu.au
Jane.Dixon@anu.edu.au
Francesco.Paolucci@anu.edu.au
John.Glover@adelaide.edu.au'
author_list:
- family: Strazdins
given: Lyndall
- family: Griffin
given: Amy L.
- family: Broom
given: Dorothy H.
- family: Banwell
given: Cathy
- family: Korda
given: Rosemary
- family: Dixon
given: Jane
- family: Paolucci
given: Francesco
- family: Glover
given: John
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1068/a4360
eissn: 1472-3409
files: []
issn: 0308-518X
journal: ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE
keywords-plus: 'PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY; FAMILY TIME; WORK; DETERMINANTS; STRESS; TRENDS;
SPACE; VULNERABILITY; EMPLOYMENT; ALLOCATION'
language: English
month: MAR
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '96'
orcid-numbers: 'Glover, John/0000-0001-8276-7982
Banwell, Cathy/0000-0001-6808-1052
Griffin, Amy/0000-0001-6548-7970
Strazdins, Lyndall/0000-0001-5158-6855
Dixon, Jane/0000-0003-4658-4307
Paolucci, Francesco/0000-0001-6173-5324
Korda, Rosemary/0000-0002-9390-2171
PAOLUCCI, FRANCESCO/0000-0002-6585-7190'
pages: 545-559
papis_id: 4446b628bca1e29a65bd7b48d88d9eea
ref: Strazdins2011timescarcity
researcherid-numbers: 'Griffin, Amy L/E-5784-2010
'
times-cited: '107'
title: 'Time scarcity: another health inequality?'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000290593800005
usage-count-last-180-days: '6'
usage-count-since-2013: '113'
volume: '43'
web-of-science-categories: Environmental Studies; Geography
year: '2011'