Evaluation of health determinants for sustaining workability in aging US workforce

نویسندگان

  • Vatsalya Vatsalya
  • Robert Karch
چکیده

Growth of older population in United States requires multi-generational evaluation to characterize health measures for sustaining workability. Investigation of measures that working population would need and use with their work-life in an attempt to stay healthy and fit, could potentially reveal significant association that could extend workability and enhance work productivity such as performance, presenteeism, job satisfaction. Evaluation with selective longitudinal health profiling; employment prerequisites; socio-economic and psychological scales could characterize health measures significantly associated with work sustainability. Such health measures could potentially be employed by US working population early in their life and occupation to sustain and improve workability in their later epoch.

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دوره 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013