Background: The health of care workers in residential long-term care (LTC) is under pressure. Scholars emphasize the importance of gender-sensitive and intersectional approaches to occupational health.
Objective: To unravel how the health of nurses and nursing aides is shaped by gender, class, age, sexuality and race.
Aim: To understand self-employed long-term-care workers' experiences of precariousness, and to unravel how their experiences are shaped at the intersection of gender, class, race, migration and age.
Background: In the Netherlands, increasing numbers of nurses and nursing aides in long-term care (LTC) opt for self-employment. Societal organizations and policy makers express concerns about this development, as self-employment is seen as a risk factor for poor health.
Photovoice is a widely used approach for community participation in health promotion and health promotion research. However, its popularity has a flip-side. Scholars raise concerns that photovoice drifts away from its emancipatory roots, neglecting photovoice's aim to develop critical consciousness together with communities.
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