Worker Health and Safety in Chinatown Restaurants: A CBPR Study

唐人街餐馆工人的健康与安全：CBPR 研究

• 批准号: 7234946
• 负责人: Meredith A Minkler
• 金额: $ 17.29万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7234946
• 关键词: Worker; Health; Safety; Chinatown; Restaurants

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Chinese Restaurant Worker Project is a two year pilot project, in the traditions of community based participatory research (CBPR) and social ecological theory, that places a strong focus on immigrant worker health. Immigrants accounted for 86% of all newly employed workers hired from 2000 to 2005 (1) and in urban areas, restaurants remain a primary source of employment. In San Francisco's Chinatown, close to a third of workers are employed in this sector (12). The high rates of injuries and work related illnesses in restaurant workers often are compounded for low-wage Chinese restaurant workers due to language barriers and low educational level. The project's aims include: developing an effective partnership between community, health department, and academic partners; creating and training a Restaurant Worker Leadership Group (RWLG) which will play a key role throughout the project; conducting a study of the association between physical and psychosocial restaurant conditions and occupational illness and injury in Chinese restaurant workers; providing culturally relevant worker education; widely disseminating project findings and using them to help inform subsequent research and action; and evaluating the project using both conventional and participatory approaches. We will collect both individual-level data through a survey of at least 400 Chinatown restaurant workers and observer-based restaurant-level data (n=131) during restaurant inspections to explore the relationship between restaurant characteristics (e.g., restaurant size and type), workplace hazards, worker characteristics and perceptions (e.g., gender, seniority and perceived risk), and health outcomes (occupational illness and injury). An innovative feature of the study is the development of a new Restaurant Worker Health and Safety Checklist to supplement the health department's routine food safety inspections in all 131 Chinatown restaurants. Multi-level analysis will be conducted on the associations between occupational illness and injury in Chinese restaurant workers and the social and environmental conditions in which they work. Findings of this study will help lay the groundwork for a larger study testing the efficacy of restaurant- and policy-level interventions to improve restaurant worker health and safety.

描述（由申请人提供）：中餐馆工人项目是一个为期两年的试点项目，遵循基于社区的参与式研究（CBPR）和社会生态理论的传统，重点关注移民工人的健康。从2000年到2005年，移民占所有新雇佣工人的86%(1)，在城市地区，餐馆仍然是主要的就业来源。在旧金山的唐人街，近三分之一的工人在这个行业工作。由于语言障碍和低教育水平，低工资的中国餐馆工人受伤和与工作有关的疾病的高发率往往更为复杂。该项目的目标包括：在社区、卫生部门和学术伙伴之间建立有效的伙伴关系；创建并培训一个餐厅工人领导小组（RWLG），该小组将在整个项目中发挥关键作用；对中国餐馆工人的身体和社会心理状况与职业病和工伤之间的关系进行研究；提供与文化相关的工人教育；广泛传播项目调查结果，并利用这些结果为随后的研究和行动提供信息；并使用传统方法和参与式方法评估项目。我们将通过对至少400名唐人街餐厅员工的调查收集个人层面的数据，并在餐厅检查期间收集基于观察者的餐厅层面数据（n=131），以探索餐厅特征（如餐厅规模和类型）、工作场所危害、员工特征和感知（如性别、资历和感知风险）以及健康结果（职业病和伤害）之间的关系。这项研究的一个创新特点是制定了一份新的餐馆工人健康和安全检查清单，以补充卫生部门对所有131家唐人街餐馆的例行食品安全检查。本文将对中餐馆从业人员的职业病和工伤与其工作环境和社会条件之间的关系进行多层次分析。这项研究的结果将有助于为一项更大规模的研究奠定基础，该研究将测试餐馆和政策层面的干预措施对改善餐馆工人健康和安全的有效性。