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Self-rated health as a predictor of disability retirement--the contribution of ill-health and working conditions. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
OBJECTIVE: Self-rated health is a generic health indicator predicting mortality, many diseases, and need for care. We examined self-rated health as a predictor of subsequent disability retirement, and ill-health and working conditions as potential ...
Olli Pietiläinen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of municipality characteristics on disability retirement [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Public Health, 2013
In addition to individual-level characteristics also contextual factors may contribute to the large regional variation seen in disability retirement. We examined the associations of municipality-level characteristics and disability retirement due to all causes, musculoskeletal diseases, mental disorders and other diseases.A register-based study was ...
Mikko, Laaksonen, Raija, Gould
openaire   +2 more sources

Childhood adversities as a predictor of disability retirement [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2007
Background: There is a large body of research on adulthood risk factors for retirement due to disability, but studies on the effect of adverse childhood experiences are scarce. Aim: To examine whether adverse childhood experiences predict disability retirement ...
Harkonmaki, K   +6 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Working conditions as risk factors for disability retirement: a longitudinal register linkage study

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2012
Background Early retirement due to disability is a public health and work environment problem that shortens working careers. Transition to disability retirement is based on ill-health, but working conditions are also of relevance.
Lahelma Eero   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predictors of disability retirement

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 1997
Disability retirement may increase as the work force ages, but there is little information on factors associated with retirement because of disability. This is the first prospective population-based study of predictors of disability retirement including information on workplace, socioeconomic, behavioral, and health-related factors.The subjects were ...
Krause, N.   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Occupational influences on retirement, disability, and death [PDF]

open access: yesDemography, 1989
Abstract This research examines the alternative mechanisms by which occupations influence the nature and timing of older men’s labor force withdrawal. We specifically assess the extent to which occupational factors operate directly and indirectly on exiting events and whether occupations constrain traditional determinants of labor force ...
M D, Hayward   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

. Disability, Health, and Retirement in the United Kingdom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Over the last thirty years pathways to retirement have changed substantially in the UK. They have been dominated by spells of unemployment in the late 1970s, with then an increased importance of disability spells from the mid-1980s onwards. At the end of the period the direct route from work to retirement was increasingly more common.
James Banks   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Midlife work ability and mobility limitation in old age among non-disability and disability retirees - a prospective study

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2016
Background Little is known about the wellbeing and mobility limitation of older disability retirees. Personal and environmental factors, such as time spent in working life, may either exacerbate or mitigate the onset of mobility limitation in general ...
Monika E. von Bonsdorff   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health Problems during Compulsory Military Service Predict Disability Retirement: A Register-Based Study on Secular Trends during 40 Years of Follow-Up.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
Disability retirement causes a significant burden on the society and affects the well-being of individuals. Early health problems as determinants of disability retirement have received little attention.
Heikki Frilander   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trajectories of mental health before and after old-age and disability retirement: a register-based study on purchases of psychotropic drugs

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2012
OBJECTIVES: Retirement from paid work is a major life event facing increasingly large numbers of people in the coming years. We examined trajectories of mental health five years before and five years after old-age and disability retirement using data on ...
Mikko Laaksonen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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