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2026

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686
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7

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  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Joan Benach is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. The researcher's work spans fields including Health Professions and Social Sciences, with a notable focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Demography.

Their research primarily covers topics such as health disparities and outcomes, employment and welfare studies, global public health policies and epidemiology, workplace health and well-being, climate change and health impacts, retirement, disability and employment, as well as global health care issues.

Joan Benach's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Employment and working conditions of nurses: where and how health inequalities have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic?, 2021, Human Resources for Health
  • Deaths of Despair: A Scoping Review on the Social Determinants of Drug Overdose, Alcohol-Related Liver Disease and Suicide, 2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • We Must Take Advantage of This Pandemic to Make a Radical Social Change: The Coronavirus as a Global Health, Inequality, and Eco-Social Problem, 2020, International Journal of Health Services
  • What Do We Know about Inequalities in NAFLD Distribution and Outcomes? A Scoping Review, 2021, Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Precarious employment and mental health across European welfare states: a gender perspective, 2022, International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Joan Benach include:

  • Lucinda Cash-Gibson
  • Juan M. Pericàs
  • Carles Muntaner
  • Eliana Martínez-Herrera
  • Mireia Julià

The researcher has contributed extensively to several publication venues, notably:

  • International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services (16 publications)
  • International Journal of Health Services (4 publications)
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (3 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (3 publications)
  • Cities (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Precarious Employment: Understanding an Emerging Social Determinant of Health

    J. Benach;A. Vives;M. Amable;C. Vanroelen;C. Vanroelen;C. Vanroelen

  • Unemployment and Mental Health: Understanding the Interactions Among Gender, Family Roles, and Social Class

    Lucía Artazcoz;Joan Benach;Carme Borrell;Immaculada Cortès

  • Politics and health outcomes

    Vicente Navarro;Vicente Navarro;Carles Muntaner;Carles Muntaner;Carme Borrell;Joan Benach

  • How do types of employment relate to health indicators? Findings from the Second European Survey on Working Conditions

    F G Benavides;J Benach;A V Diez-Roux;C Roman

  • Precarious employment and health: developing a research agenda

    J Benach;C Muntaner

  • Trends in Smoking Behaviour Between 1985 and 2000 in Nine European countries by Education

    Katrina M. Giskes;Anton E. Kunst;Joan Benach;Carme Borrell

  • Migration-related health inequalities: Showing the complex interactions between gender, social class and place of origin

    Davide Malmusi;Carme Borrell;Joan Benach

  • Social class and self-reported health status among men and women: what is the role of work organisation, household material standards and household labour?

    Carme Borrell;Carles Muntaner;Joan Benach;Lucı́a Artazcoz

  • Reducing inequalities in health : a European perspective

    J. P Mackenbach;Martijntje Bakker;Joan Benach

  • Associations between temporary employment and occupational injury: what are the mechanisms?

    Fernando G Benavides;Joan Benach;Carles Muntaner;George L Delclos

  • The Employment Precariousness Scale (EPRES): psychometric properties of a new tool for epidemiological studies among waged and salaried workers

    Alejandra Vives;Marcelo Amable;Montserrat Ferrer;Salvador Moncada

  • Gender inequalities in health among workers: the relation with family demands

    L Artazcoz;C Borrell;J Benach

  • Immigrant populations, work and health--a systematic literature review.

    Emily Q Ahonen;Fernando G Benavides;Joan Benach

  • Women, family demands and health: the importance of employment status and socio-economic position.

    Lucía Artazcoz;Carme Borrell;Joan Benach;Imma Cortès

  • Employment conditions and health inequalities.

    Joan Benach;Carles Muntaner;Vilma Santana

  • Types of employment and health in the European Union: Changes from 1995 to 2000

    Joan Benach;David Gimeno;Fernando G. Benavides;José Miguel Martínez

  • Welfare states, flexible employment, and health: A critical review

    Il Ho Kim;Carles Muntaner;Carles Muntaner;Faraz Vahid Shahidi;Faraz Vahid Shahidi;Alejandra Vives;Alejandra Vives

  • The health-damaging potential of new types of flexible employment: a challenge for public health researchers.

    J Benach;F G Benavides;S Platt;A Diez-Roux

  • Politics, welfare regimes, and population health: controversies and evidence

    Carles Muntaner;Carme Borrell;Edwin Ng;Haejoo Chung

  • Social inequalities in the impact of flexible employment on different domains of psychosocial health

    Lucía Artazcoz;Joan Benach;Carme Borrell;Imma Cortès

Frequent Co-Authors

Carles Muntaner
Carles Muntaner University of Toronto
Carme Borrell
Carme Borrell Pompeu Fabra University
Fernando G. Benavides
Fernando G. Benavides Pompeu Fabra University
Lucía Artazcoz
Lucía Artazcoz Pompeu Fabra University
Maica Rodríguez-Sanz
Maica Rodríguez-Sanz Pompeu Fabra University
Vicente Navarro
Vicente Navarro Johns Hopkins University
Michael Quinlan
Michael Quinlan University of New South Wales
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
José María Baldasano
José María Baldasano Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Hans De Witte
Hans De Witte KU Leuven

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