Occupational Exposures Associated with Life Expectancy without and with Disability.

ABSTRACT: Policies to extend working lives often do not take into account potentially important health inequalities arising from differences in occupational exposures. Little is known about which occupational exposures are associated with these inequalities. This study aims to examine differences in life expectancy without and with disability by occupational exposures. Longitudinal data (1992-2016) on disability and physical and psychosocial work demands and resources of 2513 (former) workers aged ≥55 years participating in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam were used. Gender specific life expectancies without and with disability by occupational exposures were calculated using multistate survival models. Women aged 55 years with high physical work demands had a lower life expectancy without disa

SUBMITTER: de Wind A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7503628 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature