Educational differences in alcohol-related morbidity and the role of working conditions: a Swedish register-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT: This study aims to investigate the relationship between education and alcohol-related morbidity and the role that low job control and heavy physical workload play in explaining these associations among men and women in Sweden. This register-based cohort study (SWIP cohort) includes over three million individuals registered in Sweden in 2005. Job control and physical workload were measured using a job exposure matrix linked to the index person based on their registered occupation at baseline. Alcohol-related morbidity was measured through diagnoses in the national patient registers between 2006 and 2020. Cox proportional hazards regression models were built to estimate associations between education and alcohol-related morbidity. Reductions in hazard ratios (HRs) were calculated after adjus

SUBMITTER: Almroth M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11631502 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature