OP108 Association of Ill health and taking early retirement or becoming ...
...These associations were more pronounced among females and people experiencing financial strain. Conclusion This study provides evidence that ill health, both pre-existing and reported following COVID-19, is associated with both early retirement and economic inactivity among older UK workers....
https://jech.bmj.com/content/78/Suppl_1/A38.1
Chronic health conditions and health-related economic inactivity in ...
...In this study, we used data from two British birth cohort studies of people born 12 years apart (in 1958 and 1970) to explore associations between chronic health conditions in early midlife and economic activity in cohort members? early fifties, more than a decade before State Pension Age....
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.20.25329982v1.full.pdf
Is worsening health leading to more older workers quitting work ...
...The Health Foundation and the Institute for Employment Studies have both argued that a key reason behind the increase in economic inactivity has been worsening health, and John Burn-Murdoch has written for the FT about worsening health in the working age population and the role chronic illness has played in driving inactivity rates higher ....
https://ifs.org.uk/articles/worsening-health-leading-more-older-workers-quitting-work-driving-rates-economic
Why did middle-aged and older people retire since the first COVID-19 ...
...One of the main reasons for such an increase in economic inactivity is the rise in people who have taken retirement. Therefore, the Government are currently implementing policies, such as increase in tax relief on pensions [28], to bring back to work some of the early retirees....
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-17548-w
Leg ulceration: An exploration of the role of socio- economic factors ...
...Methods The epidemiology and management of leg ulcers was examined using the GPRD and THIN primary care databases. Regression models were undertaken to quantify the relationship between variables and leg ulcer rates. Multilevel logistic models were undertaken to examine three aspects of guideline recommended care in the cohort of patients diagnosed with incident venous leg ulcers; initial ......
https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/1483/2/Complete_thesis_v11_corrected_final.pdf
Rising ill-health and economic inactivity because of long-term sickness ...
...Rising ill-health and economic inactivity because of long-term sickness, UK: 2019 to 2023 Experimental statistics estimating the different health conditions of the working-age population and those economically inactive because of long-term sickness....
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/economicinactivity/articles/risingillhealthandeconomicinactivitybecauseoflongtermsicknessuk/2019to2023?v=esphr-mmm2-banner-button
Venous ulcers of the lower extremity: epidemiology and socioeconomic ...
...A leg ulcer is not a disease, but rather a clinical finding that can be caused by a variety of different disorders and is associated with several risk factors. Venous ulcers can be caused by a number of pathophysiological mechanisms related to hemodynamic aberrations in different venous anatomic segments. A population-based study conducted in Sweden, published by our group, showed that ......
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780323906104000252
Economic inactivity before reaching State Pension Age
...The study has captured information on a wide variety of circumstances across the life course, including cohort members? childhood and adult socioeconomic position (SEP), their pension and housing assets, health, and caring responsibilities. This briefing investigates the role of these factors in shaping economic inactivity in their late 50s and early 60s....
https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Economic-inactivity-before-reaching-State-Pension-Age-CLS-Policy-Briefing.pdf
Common health predictors of early retirement: findings from the English ...
...Conclusion: older workers who report depressive symptoms or impaired physical mobility, especially with lower limb pain and shortness of breath, are at increased risk of early transition out of work. Health interventions targeting these conditions may enable older workers to remain in the labour force....
https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article-abstract/40/1/54/12327
Cohort study evaluating the burden of wounds to the UK?s National ...
...In total, there were 1 million ulcers of the lower limb, which equates to 2.0% of the adult population having a lower limb ulcer in the study year. Of these, the number of diagnosed venous leg ulcers (560 000) indicates that 1.1% of all adults ?18 years of age had such an ulcer in the study year....
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/12/e045253
Chronic health conditions and health-related economic inactivity in ...
...Health-related economic inactivity is a growing concern in the United Kingdom but little is known about how the relationship between health and work participation has changed across cohorts. Methods We used data from two British birth cohorts born in 1958 (National Child Development Study, n = 9,761) and 1970 (British Cohort Study, n = 7,336)....
https://sciety.org/articles/activity/10.1101/2025.06.20.25329982
Investigation of the Effect of Deprivation on the Burden and Management ...
...Methods: Using The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database we identified a cohort of over 14000 patients with a diagnosis of venous leg ulceration, prospectively recorded between the years 2001 and 2006, with linked area-level socio-economic information (Townsend deprivation quintile)....
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/investigation-of-the-effect-of-deprivation-on-the-burden-and-mana