abstract: 'Objectives: To assess the relation of the incidence of, and recovery

  from, limiting illness to employment status, occupational social class,

  and income over time in an initially healthy sample of working age men

  and women.

  Methods: Cox proportional hazards models.

  Results: There were large differences in the risk of limiting illness

  according to occupational social class, with men and women in the least

  favourable employment conditions nearly four times more likely to become

  ill than those in the most favourable. Unemployment and economic

  inactivity also had a powerful effect on illness incidence. Limiting

  illness was not a permanent state for most participants in the study.

  Employment status was also related to recovery.

  Conclusions: Having secure employment in favourable working conditions

  greatly reduces the risk of healthy people developing limiting illness.

  Secure employment increases the likelihood of recovery. These findings

  have considerable implications for both health inequality and economic

  policies.'
affiliation: 'Bartley, M (Corresponding Author), UCL, Sch Med, Dept Epidemiol \& Publ
  Hlth, 1-19 Torrington Pl, London WC1E 6BT, England.

  UCL, Sch Med, Dept Epidemiol \& Publ Hlth, London WC1E 6BT, England.'
author: Bartley, M and Sacker, A and Clarke, P
author-email: mel@public-health.ucl.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: Bartley
  given: M
- family: Sacker
  given: A
- family: Clarke
  given: P
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1136/jech.2003.009878
eissn: 1470-2738
files: []
issn: 0143-005X
journal: JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
keywords-plus: 'HEALTHY LIFE EXPECTANCY; WHITEHALL-II; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; JOB

  INSECURITY; LABOR-MARKET; POPULATION; EMPLOYEES; UNEMPLOYMENT;

  DISADVANTAGE; COHORT'
language: English
month: JUN
number: '6'
number-of-cited-references: '29'
orcid-numbers: Bartley, Mel/0000-0002-5981-0046
pages: 501-506
papis_id: fd8837eff0e81b05b3bc4a7c391ec113
ref: Bartley2004employmentstatus
times-cited: '155'
title: 'Employment status, employment conditions, and limiting illness: prospective
  evidence from the British household panel survey 1991-2001'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000221439500014
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '19'
volume: '58'
web-of-science-categories: Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health
year: '2004'