Midlife Work and Women's Long-Term Health and Mortality.

ABSTRACT: Although paid work is a well-established predictor of health, several gaps in our knowledge about the relationship between adult work patterns and later health and mortality remain, including whether these benefits persist over long periods and whether they are dependent on subjective experiences with work. We draw on more than three decades of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women to assess how labor force participation over a period of 20 years during midlife is related to mental and physical health and mortality over the following 16-25 years. We find that consistent work earlier in life continues to predict improved health and longevity over many years as women enter late life, and this relationship does not differ between women with positive and those with negativ

SUBMITTER: Caputo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7052029 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature