Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull's scientific contributions

... There is a tendency toward declining mental well-being after migration among foreign care workers living with lower economic conditions [10]. This is because most foreign workers emigrated to developed countries for a better economic life [12,73]. In comparison with the high cost of living in Japan, foreign care workers are typically dissatisfied with their low pay, which may have a negative impact on their mental health [7]. ...

... Explanations for under-claiming or under-reporting, while primarily focused on the severity of the injury regardless of employment status (Barnetson et al., 2018;Cloutier et al., 2011;Shannon and Lowe, 2002;Stock et al., 2014), also include fear of reprisals, particularly by those who are precariously employed (Barnetson et al., 2018;Hall, 2016;Quinlan and Mayhew, 1999;Underhill and Quinlan, 2011) and lack of knowledge as to coverage (Barnetson et al., 2018;Hall, 2016;Quinlan and Mayhew, 1999). Some studies document cases where misinformation provided by employers leads workers to believe they have no coverage because of their employment status (Lippel et al., , 2020. ...

... For example, late television chef Anthony Bourdain (2001) once described how, while working as a young apprentice in a fast-paced kitchen, he initially found it distressing to be burned by hot cast-iron skillets, but gradually became accustomed to this common injury, wearing the scorches and blisters on his hands as proverbial badges of experience. Unclear indicators of safety may add to or exacerbate other reasons that young workers might underreport injuries, such as a lack of knowledge about reporting systems, a belief that reporting one's injury is an onerous process , fear of retaliation from one's employer (Foster et al., 2018;Hall, 2016), or fear of a delayed payment or a rejected claim (Azaroff et al., 2002). ...