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Chronically busy, chronically unhealthy? Understanding the time poverty and health interplay through systematic review synthesis

Year: 2025

Type: review

Abstract: The hustle culture of this generation and rising health concerns highlights the urgent need to tackle time poverty as a public health issue. The study breaks down the complexity of time constraints and their health interplay by synthesising the past literature. The study uses the PEO (Population, Exposure, Outcome) search approach to search the Scopus and Web of Science databases. After a thorough review, 16 significant papers were selected. The study deploys a thematic framework and finds central concerns which are caused by time poverty, such as the’cycle of servitude,’ ‘unseen labour’, ‘non-remunerative’, ‘underpaid’. ‘extended workdays’, ‘commute experiences’, and ‘disrupted work’, lead to health issues. The study’s framework is an important link that can help policymakers and future researchers establish health policies based on the challenges addressed in this study.

Source: Cogent Social Sciences

DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2025.2491707

Authors: Sukhpreet Kaur Jaggi, Deepa Jitendra Gupta

Institution: Symbiosis International University

Language: English

Topic: Workplace Health and Well-being

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,165