OBJECTIVES To examine the association of employment status and characteristics with prevalent and incident memory complaints (MC) in 55-64-year-olds. METHODS Subjects were participants of the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA). Respondents with baseline data were selected to examine the association of employment status (n = 1525) and employment characteristics (n = 1071) with prevalent...

Most data sets indicate a positive correlation between having health insurance and utilizing health care services. Yet the direction of causality is not at all clear. If we observe a positive correlation between the utilization of health care services and insurance status, we do not know if this is because people who anticipate poor health buy more insurance (or take jobs with generous medical ...

This paper explores the empirical validity of two important issues recently highlighted by disparity society theory in Japan. The first is income disparity and disparity between regular and non-regular workers. It is clear that social stratification theory has not yet analyzed these issues seriously. It has studied occupations rather than income; it has implicitly assumed that workers have regu...

BACKGROUND Impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia (IAH) is common in adults with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and is a major risk factor for severe hypoglycaemia. Little is known about its effect on employment status. AIMS To examine the effect that IAH has on the employment status or employability of people with T1DM. METHODS A randomly selected cohort of adults of employment age with T1DM...

BACKGROUND Doctors have a low prevalence of sickness absence. Employment status is a determinant in the multifactorial background of sickness absence. The effect of doctors' employment status on sickness absence is unexplored. The study compares the number of sickness absence days during the last 12 months and the impact of employment status, psychosocial work stress, self-rated health and demo...

BACKGROUND Individuals with lower socioeconomic status are at increased risk of involuntary exit from paid employment. To give sound advice for primary prevention in the workforce, insight is needed into the role of mediating factors between socioeconomic status and labour force participation. Therefore, it is aimed to investigate the influence of health status, lifestyle-related factors and wo...

With the growth of atypical employment, there is increasing concern about the potential health-damaging effects of unstable employment. This prospective study of Finnish public-sector employees in 1998-2002 examined labor market trajectories and changes in health. At entry, all participants had a fixed-term job contract. Trajectories were measured by exposure to unstable employment during follo...

aim and background: the present study examined the predictability of quality of life (qol) based on personality traits and demographic characteristics of drug addicts. methods and materials: in the current descriptive, cross-sectional study, 200 individuals were randomly selected from addicts who referred to drug addiction treatment centers in tehran (iran). the world health organization qualit...

BACKGROUND Employment status has been shown to impact mental health state and intervention outcomes, yet still to be studied in a Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) population. This observational study investigated the relationship between employment status and mental health outcomes following Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR). METHODS All patients with an eligible cardiovascular incident entered into the...