Socio-Economic differences in mortality. A life course approach

Wunsch, Guillaume; Duchêne, Josianne; Thiltges, E; Salhi, Mohammed

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“…The "healthy worker survivor effect" is an ongoing process where those who stay in a specific occupation tend to be healthier than those who exit employment (41). The attrition analysis showed that respondents who were included in the trajectory analysis were slightly younger, more often upper white-collar employees, had slightly better work ability, and experienced less work-related physical strain at baseline compared to those who died during the follow-up or did not respond to the questionnaire.…”

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Work strain in midlife and 28-year work ability trajectories

Bonsdorff¹,

Kokko²,

Seitsamo³

et al. 2011

Scand J Work Environ Health

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Work strain in midlife and 28-year work ability trajectories

Bonsdorff¹,

Kokko²,

Seitsamo³

et al. 2011

Scand J Work Environ Health

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“…The healthy worker survivor effect is an ongoing process in which those who stay in a profession tend to be healthier than those who leave employment. 33 Those from blue-collar occupations were more likely than white-collar occupations to drop out or have missing data later on. This could have resulted in an underestimation of the predictive value of work ability within occupational groups.…”

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Work ability in midlife as a predictor of mortality and disability in later life: a 28-year prospective follow-up study

Bonsdorff

Seitsamo²,

Ilmarinen³

et al. 2011

Canadian Medical Association Journal

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P rospective studies with a follow-up time stretching from midlife to old age have shown that lower socioeconomic status, as indicated by lower education level or occupational grade, predicts a decline in health and functioning in the working population.1-4 This association is similar, if not more pronounced, in old age. 5-7Higher levels of work-related mental and physical strain increase the risk of early retirement and predict a decline in health and an increase in mortality among the working population. 3,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] However, the association between the demands of the work in conjunction with inadequate mental or physical resources (i.e., work ability) 16 and health and functioning in old age has not been studied.17 Using a population-based 28-year follow-up study involving middle-aged municipal employees, we investigated whether work ability in midlife predicts the risk of death and disability during old age among white-collar and blue-collar employees. Methods Participants and designThe Finnish Institute of Occupational Health's Finnish Longitudinal Study on Municipal Employees (FLAME) targeted 7344 individuals aged 44-58 years at baseline in 1981.18 The participants had been chosen at random from members of all municipal professions in Finland. The baseline cohort consisted of 6257 employees (44.7% men), for a response rate of 85.2%. The first questionnaire, which explored work, health and lifestyle factors, was sent out in 1981, and follow-up data were collected in 1985, 1992, 1997 and 2009. Data on work ability were missing for 199 women and 87 men. The analyses in this study are based on the responses of 5971 Work ability in midlife as a predictor of mortality and disability in later life: a 28-year prospective follow-up study Mikaela B. von Research CMAJ Background: Poor work ability correlates with increased morbidity and early retirement from the workforce, but the association in old age is not known. We investigated work ability in midlife among white-collar and blue-collar employees as a predictor of mortality and disability 28 years later.

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“…Thus, is parallels the expanding lifecourse perspective on health inequalities (see, for instance, Carroll et al 1996, Davey Smith et al 1997, Wunsch et al 1996. Self-efficacy is commonly seen as a result of a lifetime development.…”

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The Psycho‐social Perspective on Social Inequalities in Health

Elstad¹

1998

Sociology Health & Illness

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Doubts about the viability of material explanations of social inequalities in health have led to a renewed focus on the aetiological role of psychological stress, and, moreover, on how psychological stress is generated by society's inequality structures. Some researchers maintain that the emerging psychosocial perspective will become the dominant paradigm in research on health inequalities. After commenting on some aetiological topics, the paper outlines how a comprehensive understanding of health inequalities can be constructed from the social stress model, the self-efficacy approach, the sociology of emotions, and the social cohesion approach. The emerging perspective is a striking attempt to deal with health inequalities, as it seems to solve some of the difficulties that other perspectives have had in accounting for existing empirical patterns. Nevertheless, it is perhaps too much to claim that it signifies a paradigm shift. It should rather be considered as an enrichment of the social causation explanation. The latter, when studying health inequalities, should be developed further by considering both material and psycho-social environments, and their mutual interaction.

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Socio-Economic differences in mortality. A life course approach

Cited by 45 publications

References 9 publications

Work strain in midlife and 28-year work ability trajectories

Work strain in midlife and 28-year work ability trajectories

Work ability in midlife as a predictor of mortality and disability in later life: a 28-year prospective follow-up study

The Psycho‐social Perspective on Social Inequalities in Health

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