“Employment provides substantial benefits to both personal and societal health”.
Having a job can provide one with access to housing, food, and a variety of other social determinants of health that may negatively impact those without work. The type of job can also significantly impact other SDOHs based on pay, healthcare access, or environmental exposures. In the US healthcare is not required by federal law and purchasing individually is often unaffordable. Therefore, employment benefits are one of the only options for individuals to gain health insurance.

Overall, a study done at Yale showed that there is some evidence of relation between occupation and self-reported health. These discrepancies show how much occupation can impact an individual’s life and how many other social determinants of health are determined and impacted by occupation and its factors.