Increased Employment for Segregated Roma May Improve Their Health: Outcomes of a Public-Private Partnership Project

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/16/2889/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/16/2889/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16162889" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijerph16162889</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Increased Employment for Segregated Roma May Improve Their Health: Outcomes of a Public-Private Partnership Project

Original language description

Increasing employment opportunities for segregated Roma might prevent major economic losses and improve their health. Involvement of the private sector in Roma employment, on top of intensified governmental actions, is likely to be a key to sustainable improvement, but evidence on this is scarce. Our aim was to determine the potential outcomes of such a partnership regarding increased employability and the resulting improved well-being and health. We therefore investigated a Roma employment project called Equality of Opportunity, run since 2002 by a private company, U.S. Steel Kosice, in eastern Slovakia. We conducted a multi-perspective qualitative study to obtain the perspectives of key stakeholders on the outcomes of this project. We found that they expected the employability of segregated Roma to increase in particular via improvements in their work ethic and working habits, education, skills acquisition, self-confidence, courage and social inclusion. They further expected as the main health effects of increased employability an improvement in Roma well-being and health via a stable income, better housing, crime reduction, improved hygienic standards, access to prevention and improved mental resilience. Social policies regarding segregated Roma could thus be best directed at increasing employment and at these topics in particular to increase their effects on Roma health.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

ISSN

1661-7827

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

16

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000484419000023

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85071280233