abstract: 'The `working poor'' may not exceed the poverty threshold despite

  full-time (or even double) employment. The general relationship between

  poverty and illness is understood, but little is known about specific

  health implications of the `working poor'' status. The proportion of

  `working poor'' is increasing in Germany. Poverty-related health problems

  occur because of a lower standard of nutrition and housing, financial

  restraints, bad labour conditions, high-risk behaviours, and lack of

  access to health services. Impaired health status, in turn, adversely

  affects incomes and wages, raising concern about a vicious circle.

  Limited health-care resources demand preventive policies to improve

  employment status and income. Health and economic policy demand specific

  research on the health implications of precarious employment. In some

  areas, swift action is required. Journal of Public Health Policy (2010)

  31, 298-311. doi:10.1057/jphp.2010.20'
affiliation: 'Broding, HC (Corresponding Author), Inst Ruhr Univ Bochum IPA, Inst
  Prevent \& Occupat Med German Social Accid In, Burkle De La Camp Pl 1, D-44789 Bochum,
  Germany.

  Broding, Horst Christoph; Buenger, Juergen, Inst Ruhr Univ Bochum IPA, Inst Prevent
  \& Occupat Med German Social Accid In, D-44789 Bochum, Germany.

  Weber, Andreas, Med Advisory Serv Social Hlth Insurance, Dept Social Med \& Hlth
  Care Consulting, D-45141 Essen, Germany.

  Glatz, Andreas, Otto Friedrich Univ Bamberg, Fac Human Sci, D-96045 Bamberg, Germany.'
author: Broding, Horst Christoph and Weber, Andreas and Glatz, Andreas and Buenger,
  Juergen
author-email: 'broding@ipa-dguv.de

  a.weber@MDS-ev.de

  andreas.j.e.glatz@gmx.de

  buenger@ipa-dguv.de'
author_list:
- family: Broding
  given: Horst Christoph
- family: Weber
  given: Andreas
- family: Glatz
  given: Andreas
- family: Buenger
  given: Juergen
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1057/jphp.2010.20
eissn: 1745-655X
files: []
issn: 0197-5897
journal: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY
keywords: employment; poverty; working poor; health resources; health status
keywords-plus: 'PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENT; OCCUPATIONAL-HEALTH; GLOBAL EXPANSION;

  UNEMPLOYMENT; CONSEQUENCES; INEQUALITIES; DISORGANIZATION; INDICATORS;

  BRITAIN; ACCESS'
language: English
month: SEP
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '54'
orcid-numbers: Bunger, Jurgen/0000-0001-6831-7854
pages: 298-311
papis_id: ee8cc3a91bd5925ff1e5bec3d2c65e88
ref: Broding2010workingpoor
researcherid-numbers: 'Broding, Horst C/Q-7074-2018

  Bünger, Jürgen/AAJ-1113-2020

  '
times-cited: '3'
title: 'Working poor in Germany: Dimensions of the problem and repercussions for the
  health-care system'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000281484100003
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '19'
volume: '31'
web-of-science-categories: 'Health Care Sciences \& Services; Health Policy \& Services;
  Public,

  Environmental \& Occupational Health'
year: '2010'