Medical rehabilitation of older employees with migrant background in Germany: Does the utilization meet the needs?

ABSTRACT: Due to demographic change with an ageing workforce, the proportion of employees with poor health and a need for medical rehabilitation is increasing. The aim was to investigate if older employees with migrant background have a different need for and utilization of medical rehabilitation than employees without migrant background. To investigate this, self-reported data from older German employees born in 1959 or 1965 of the first and second study wave of the lidA cohort study were exploratory analyzed (n = 3897). Subgroups of employees with migrant background were separated as first-generation, which had either German or foreign nationality, and second-generation vs. the rest as non-migrants. All subgroups were examined for their need for and utilization of medical rehabilitation with descr

SUBMITTER: Schroder CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8820604 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature