Marcel Goldberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcel Goldberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcel |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Inserm |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6161-5880 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 218 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Intergenerational Social Mobility and Smoking Trajectories in Middle-Aged Adults – The French Constances Cohort Study (2012–2020)
INTRODUCTION: Tobacco smoking remains a public health challenge, particularly among low-income populations. Beyond individuals' own socioeconomic position, their family background and the type of social trajectory they experienced, could also be related to smoking behaviors as tobacco use starts generally in adolescence. In the present study, we tested the association between intergenerational social mobility and individuals' smoking trajectories…
Non-linear relationships between lifetime unemployment exposure, major health outcomes and all-cause mortality
The non-linear relationships of lifetime unemployment exposure with cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality rates may be related to the health benefits of having the occasional opportunity to leave jobs with bad working conditions over the life course
Duration of exposure to night work and cardiovascular risk factors
The effects on cardiovascular risk factors varied according to the types of night work and within sex groups. Some effects were observed after five years of exposure. These results support the need for early and appropriate monitoring of cardiovascular risk factors among current and former night workers
Coping Information Affects Older and Young Adults’ Security Update Decisions
Software updating is a critical cybersecurity measure that often depends on decision making by end users on whether to apply, delay, or ignore updates when available. Little is known about how aging may interact with cognitive factors and cybersecurity attitudes to affect software update decisions in older versus younger adults. The present study used an online experiment ( N = 120) to compare older and younger adults' responses to hypothetical s…
Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022
BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…
Use of Mobile Phones and Radiofrequency-Emitting Devices in the Cosmos-France Cohort
In this cross-sectional presentation of contemporary mobile phone usage in France, age and sex were important determinants of use patterns
Changes in household use of disinfectant and cleaning products during the first lockdown period in France
The frequency and duration of weekly use of HDCPs has significantly increased since the pandemic. As the use of HDCPs is associated with health issues, further studies are now needed to evaluate the potential health impacts of these changes
Lifetime exposure to unemployment and prior working conditions are associated with retiree's health
Cannabis Use Increases the Risk of Sickness Absence
Aims To examine the longitudinal associations between cannabis use and risks of short ( 28 days) sickness absences at one-year follow-up. Methods 87,273 participants aged 18-65 years from the French CONSTANCES cohort reported their frequency of cannabis use at inclusion between 2012 and 2018. Sickness absences occurring during one year of follow-up were collected from national medico-administrative registries. Multivariable generalized linear reg…
« On voulait casser la baraque »
Atypical working hours are associated with tobacco, cannabis and alcohol use
The potential role of atypical working hours on substance use should be considered by public health policy makers and clinicians in information and prevention strategies
Adverse employment histories and allostatic load
BACKGROUND: Most studies on the health impact of occupational stress use single-point measures of stress at work. This study analyses the associations of properties of entire employment trajectories over an extended time period with a composite score of allostatic load (AL). METHODS: Data come from the French CONSTANCES cohort, with information on adverse employment histories between ages 25 and 45 and a composite score of AL (based on 10 biomark…
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…
Physical exertion at work and addictive behaviors
Background This study examined the prospective association of physical exertion at work with risk of tobacco, cannabis, alcohol use and sugar and fat consumption. Methods Volunteers of the French population-based CONSTANCES cohort currently employed were included from 2012 to 2017 for tobacco and cannabis outcomes (n = 100,612), and from 2012 to 2016 for alcohol and sugar and fat outcomes (n = 75,414). High level of physical exertion was defined …
Occupational Exposures to Organic Solvents and Asthma Symptoms in the Constances Cohort
Solvents are used in many workplaces and may be airway irritants but few studies have examined their association with asthma. We studied this question in CONSTANCES (cohort of 'CONSulTANts des Centres d'Examens de Santé'), a large French cohort. Current asthma and asthma symptom scores were defined by participant-reported respiratory symptoms, asthma medication or attacks, and the sum of 5 symptoms, in the past 12 months, respectively. Lifetime e…
Lifetime Duration of Exposure to Biomechanical Factors at Work as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Position and Walking Speed
The study aimed to assess the proportion mediated by the duration of exposure to ergonomic factors at work on the relationship between socioeconomic position (SEP) and low walking speed. This cross-sectional study was performed on data collected at baseline on 19,704 men and 20,273 women 45-70 years old, currently or previously employed, enrolled in the Constances cohort. SEP was assigned through current or last occupation, categorized in three c…
The Constances Cohort Biobank
“General-purpose cohorts” in epidemiology and public health are designed to cover a broad scope of determinants and outcomes, in order to answer several research questions, including those not defined at study inception. In this context, the general objective of the CONSTANCES project is to set up a large population-based cohort that will contribute to the development of epidemiological research by hosting ancillary projects on a wide range of sc…
Special Report
Funded by the European Commission Horizon2020 programme, the Lifepath research consortium aimed to understand the impacts of socioeconomic inequalities on the biology of healthy ageing. The main research questions included the impact of inequalities on health, the role of behavioural and other risk factors, the underlying biological mechanisms, the efficacy of selected policies, and the general implications of our findings for theories and polici…
Diet and physical activity in the association between depression and metabolic syndrome
Intragenerational Social Mobility and Depressive Symptoms. Results From the French Constances Cohort Study
Our findings underline the importance of integrating data into analysis on starting and ending points of social mobility processes within entire histories of labor market participation
Prevalence of prescribed benzodiazepine long-term use in the French general population according to sociodemographic and clinical factors
BLTU is widespread in the French general population, however this issue may particularly concern vulnerable subgroups. These findings may help in raising attention on this public health burden as well as targeting specific at-risk subgroups in preventive intervention
Long-term effects of compulsory schooling on physical, mental and cognitive ageing
BACKGROUND: Longer schooling is associated with better physical, mental and cognitive functioning, but there is controversy as to whether these associations are causal. We examine the long-term health impact of a policy that increased compulsory schooling by 2 years in France for cohorts born on or after January 1953, offering a natural experiment. METHODS: Data came from Constances, a randomly selected cohort of the French population assessed fo…
Effort–reward imbalance and long-term benzodiazepine use
OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between effort-reward imbalance and incident long-term benzodiazepine use (LTBU). METHODS: We included 31 077 employed participants enrolled in the French population-based CONSTANCES cohort between 2012 and 2014 who had not undergone LTBU in the 2 years before enrolment. LTBU was examined using drug reimbursement administrative databases. The effort-reward imbalance was calculated in quartiles. We computed O…
Long working hours, anthropometry, lung function, blood pressure and blood-based biomarkers
BACKGROUND: Although long working hours have been shown to be associated with the onset of cardiometabolic diseases, the clinical risk factor profile associated with long working hours remains unclear. We compared the clinical risk profile between people who worked long hours and those who reported being never exposed to long hours. METHODS: A cross-sectional study in 22 health screening centres in France was based on a random population-based sa…
Work-Related Stressors and Increased Risk of Benzodiazepine Long-Term Use
Objectives. To examine whether stressful job exposure to the public could be associated with having long-term benzodiazepine use. Methods. From the participants included between 2012 and 2016 in the French population-based CONSTANCES cohort, 13 934 men and 19 261 women declared a daily job exposure to the public and rated the frequency of stressful exposure. We examined benzodiazepine long-term use by using drug reimbursement administrative regis…
What does self rated health measure? Results from the British Whitehall II and French Gazel cohort studies
Objectives: To investigate the determinants of self rated health (SRH) in men and women in the British Whitehall II study and the French Gazel cohort study. Methods: The cross sectional analyses reported in this paper use data from wave 1 of the Whitehall II study (1985–88) and wave 2 of the Gazel study (1990). Determinants were either self reported or obtained through medical screening and employer’s records. The Whitehall II study is based on 2…
Social relations and self-reported health
Socioeconomic Position, Health, and Possible Explanations
Objectives. We examined whether the social gradient for measures of morbidity is comparable in English and French public employees and investigated risk factors that may explain this gradient. Methods. This longitudinal study of 2 occupational cohorts—5825 London civil servants and 6818 French office-based employees—used 2 health outcomes: long spells of sickness absence during a 4-year follow-up and self-reported health. Results. Strong social g…
Longitudinal study of associations between perceived health status and self reported diseases in the French Gazel cohort
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Although perceived health status is an indicator widely used in epidemiological studies, its relation to various diseases is not well known. The objective of this study is to examine these relations in detail. DESIGN: Marginal models used for a longitudinal study of the association between three health scales and 47 diseases among 12 164 men and 44 diseases among 4415 women. SETTING: French Gazel cohort during the period from 199…
Lifelong socioeconomic trajectory and premature mortality (35–65 years) in France
Background: Studies conducted in the UK and Scandinavia show an inverse association between lifetime socioeconomic position and adult mortality. However, there are virtually no data from other countries and few investigations have examined non-cardiovascular mortality in men and women. Methods: Lifelong socioeconomic trajectories (father’s occupation, own occupation in young adulthood and in mid-life) and premature (⩽65 years) mortality (all-caus…
Work Factors and Occupational Class Disparities in Sickness Absence
Objectives. To estimate the contribution of stress-related and physical work factors to occupational class disparities in sickness absence from work. Methods. Our sample consisted of 8847 men and 2886 women participating in the French GAZEL cohort study. Occupational class and medically certified sickness absence data (1995–2001) were obtained from the participants’ employer. Work characteristics (physical and stress-related) were self-reported. …
Diagnosis-specific sickness absence and all-cause mortality in the Gazel study
BACKGROUND: This study aims to examine diagnosis-specific sickness absence as a risk marker for all-cause mortality. METHODS: Prospective occupational cohort (the GAZEL study). Medically certified sickness absence spells >7 days for 15 diagnostic categories, 1990-1992, were examined in relation to all-cause mortality, January 1993-February 2007. The reference group for each diagnostic category was participants with no spell >7 days for that diagn…
Psychosocial work environment and cardiovascular risk factors in an occupational cohort in France
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Concordant results have been reported in several studies for the effects of job stress on cardiovascular disease, but the potential mechanisms of these effects have seldom been explored. The aim of this study was therefore to examine, in women and men, the cross sectional relations between psychosocial work variables (psychological demands, decision latitude, and social support) and cardiovascular risk factors (hypertension, hype…
Informal Caregiving and Self-Reported Mental and Physical Health
Objectives. We investigated whether, and under what conditions, informal caregiving is associated with improved self-reported physical and mental health, most notably in terms of cognitive functioning. Methods. We performed a cross-sectional analysis of 2008 data from the Gazel Cohort Study, which involved 10 687 men and women aged 54 to 70 years. Multivariate linear and logistic regression models were used to estimate the associations between se…
Gender Differences in the Association Between Morbidity and Mortality Among Middle-Aged Men and Women
Objectives. We examined gender differences in mortality, morbidity, and the association between the 2. Methods. We used health data from 2 studies of middle-aged men and women: the British Whitehall II cohort of employees from 20 civil service departments in London and the 1989 French GAZEL (this acronym refers to the French gas and electric companies) of employees of France's national gas and electricity company. Participants were aged 35 to 55 …
Les inegalites sociales devant la mort en grande-bretagne et en France
Job Strain and Health-Related Lifestyle
Objectives. We examined the associations of job strain, an indicator of work-related stress, with overall unhealthy and healthy lifestyles. Methods. We conducted a meta-analysis of individual-level data from 11 European studies (cross-sectional data: n = 118 701; longitudinal data: n = 43 971). We analyzed job strain as a set of binary (job strain vs no job strain) and categorical (high job strain, active job, passive job, and low job strain) var…
Long-term Effects of Psychosocial Work Stress in Midlife on Health Functioning After Labor Market Exit--Results From the Gazel Study
Findings underline the importance of working conditions in midlife not only for health in midlife but also for health functioning after labor market exit
Do different measures of early life socioeconomic circumstances predict adult mortality? Evidence from the British Whitehall II and French Gazel studies
BACKGROUND: Father's occupational position, education and height have all been used to examine the effects of adverse early life socioeconomic circumstances on health, but it remains unknown whether they predict mortality equally well. METHODS: We used pooled data on 18,393 men and 7060 women from the Whitehall II and GAZEL cohorts to examine associations between early life socioeconomic circumstances and all-cause and cause-specific mortality. R…
Long-term effects of compulsory schooling on physical, mental and cognitive ageing
BACKGROUND: Longer schooling is associated with better physical, mental and cognitive functioning, but there is controversy as to whether these associations are causal. We examine the long-term health impact of a policy that increased compulsory schooling by 2 years in France for cohorts born on or after January 1953, offering a natural experiment. METHODS: Data came from Constances, a randomly selected cohort of the French population assessed fo…
Longer schooling but not better off? A quasi-experimental study of the effect of compulsory schooling on biomarkers in France
Less schooling is associated with increased biological risks for chronic disease, but whether increasing years of schooling through policy interventions reduces these risks remains unclear. We examine the effect of a major education reform introduced in 1959 that raised the minimum school leaving age from 14 to 16 years in France, offering a unique natural experiment. We assess the causal impact of increased schooling duration on 16 biomarkers of…
Work environment mediates a large part of social inequalities in the incidence of several common cardiovascular risk factors
Differences in the carcinogenic evaluation of glyphosate between the International Agency for Research on Cancer (Iarc) and the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa)
Author(s): Portier, Christopher J; Armstrong, Bruce K; Baguley, Bruce C; Baur, Xaver; Belyaev, Igor; Bellé, Robert; Belpoggi, Fiorella; Biggeri, Annibale; Bosland, Maarten C; Bruzzi, Paolo; Budnik, Lygia Therese; Bugge, Merete D; Burns, Kathleen; Calaf, Gloria M; Carpenter, David O; Carpenter, Hillary M; López-Carrillo, Lizbeth; Clapp, Richard; Cocco, Pierluigi; Consonni, Dario; Comba, Pietro; Craft, Elena; Dalvie, Mohamed Aqiel; Davis, Devra; De…
Disparités sociales et professionnelles de la mortalité des travailleurs d'Électricité et Gaz de France
Chevalier A., Leclerc A., Blanc C., Goldberg M. Disparités professionnelles de la mortalité des travailleurs d'Electricité et Gaz de France. In: Population, 42e année, n°6, 1987. pp. 863-879
Adverse employment histories and allostatic load
BACKGROUND: Most studies on the health impact of occupational stress use single-point measures of stress at work. This study analyses the associations of properties of entire employment trajectories over an extended time period with a composite score of allostatic load (AL). METHODS: Data come from the French CONSTANCES cohort, with information on adverse employment histories between ages 25 and 45 and a composite score of AL (based on 10 biomark…
Long working hours, anthropometry, lung function, blood pressure and blood-based biomarkers
BACKGROUND: Although long working hours have been shown to be associated with the onset of cardiometabolic diseases, the clinical risk factor profile associated with long working hours remains unclear. We compared the clinical risk profile between people who worked long hours and those who reported being never exposed to long hours. METHODS: A cross-sectional study in 22 health screening centres in France was based on a random population-based sa…
Work-Related Stressors and Increased Risk of Benzodiazepine Long-Term Use
Objectives. To examine whether stressful job exposure to the public could be associated with having long-term benzodiazepine use. Methods. From the participants included between 2012 and 2016 in the French population-based CONSTANCES cohort, 13 934 men and 19 261 women declared a daily job exposure to the public and rated the frequency of stressful exposure. We examined benzodiazepine long-term use by using drug reimbursement administrative regis…
Diagnosis-specific sick leave as a long-term predictor of disability pension
BACKGROUND: Factors that increase the risk of labour market exclusion are poorly understood. In this study, we examined the extent to which all-cause and diagnosis-specific sick leave predict subsequent disability pension (DP). METHODS: Prospective cohort study of 20 434 persons employed by the French national gas and electric company (the GAZEL study). New sick-leave spells >7 days in 1990-1992 were obtained from company records. Follow-up for D…
All-cause and diagnosis-specific sickness absence as a predictor of sustained suboptimal health
UNLABELLED: background: Previous studies show that sickness absence predicts health, but it is unclear whether this association is persistent over time and whether specific diseases underlie long-term associations. The aim of this study was to investigate overall and diagnosis-specific sickness absences as predictors of sustained suboptimal health. METHODS: Prospective occupational cohort study of 15 320 employees (73% men) aged 37-51. Sickness a…
Quels dispositifs épidémiologiques d'observation de la santé en relation avec le travail
La contribution des facteurs professionnels à la santé est encore mal connue en France. On dispose malgré tout de quelques indications. Ainsi, la part des cancers attribuable aux facteurs professionnels serait de l'ordre de 3 à 8% de tous les décès par cancer. Les troubles musculo-squelettiques (TMS) représentent la première cause de maladies professionnelles. Le rôle des facteurs psychosociaux au travail (« stress ») vis-à-vis de la pathologie c…
Les inegalites sociales devant la mort en grande-bretagne et en France
Disparités sociales et professionnelles de la mortalité des travailleurs d'Électricité et Gaz de France
Chevalier A., Leclerc A., Blanc C., Goldberg M. Disparités professionnelles de la mortalité des travailleurs d'Electricité et Gaz de France. In: Population, 42e année, n°6, 1987. pp. 863-879
Psychosocial work environment and cardiovascular risk factors in an occupational cohort in France
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Concordant results have been reported in several studies for the effects of job stress on cardiovascular disease, but the potential mechanisms of these effects have seldom been explored. The aim of this study was therefore to examine, in women and men, the cross sectional relations between psychosocial work variables (psychological demands, decision latitude, and social support) and cardiovascular risk factors (hypertension, hype…
Validity of self-reported weight and height in the French Gazel cohort
Longitudinal study of associations between perceived health status and self reported diseases in the French Gazel cohort
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Although perceived health status is an indicator widely used in epidemiological studies, its relation to various diseases is not well known. The objective of this study is to examine these relations in detail. DESIGN: Marginal models used for a longitudinal study of the association between three health scales and 47 diseases among 12 164 men and 44 diseases among 4415 women. SETTING: French Gazel cohort during the period from 199…
Socioeconomic Position, Health, and Possible Explanations
Objectives. We examined whether the social gradient for measures of morbidity is comparable in English and French public employees and investigated risk factors that may explain this gradient. Methods. This longitudinal study of 2 occupational cohorts—5825 London civil servants and 6818 French office-based employees—used 2 health outcomes: long spells of sickness absence during a 4-year follow-up and self-reported health. Results. Strong social g…
Place du passage à la retraite parmi les déterminants socioprofessionnels de la consommation de boissons alcoolisées des volontaires de la Cohorte Gazel
Les objectifs de cette etude sont de decrire l'evolution de la consommation de boissons alcoolisees des participants hommes et femmes d'une cohorte definie par l'INSERM pendant la periode 1992-1998 en fonction de leur statut socio-professionnel, et d'etudier les eventuelles modifications de la consommation d'alcool observees dans la periode entourant le passage a la retraite. Ce travail essentiellement descriptif est destine a observer si cet eve…
Social relations and self-reported health
Work Factors and Occupational Class Disparities in Sickness Absence
Objectives. To estimate the contribution of stress-related and physical work factors to occupational class disparities in sickness absence from work. Methods. Our sample consisted of 8847 men and 2886 women participating in the French GAZEL cohort study. Occupational class and medically certified sickness absence data (1995–2001) were obtained from the participants’ employer. Work characteristics (physical and stress-related) were self-reported. …
Handedness and reproductive success in two large cohorts of French adults
Lifelong socioeconomic trajectory and premature mortality (35–65 years) in France
Background: Studies conducted in the UK and Scandinavia show an inverse association between lifetime socioeconomic position and adult mortality. However, there are virtually no data from other countries and few investigations have examined non-cardiovascular mortality in men and women. Methods: Lifelong socioeconomic trajectories (father’s occupation, own occupation in young adulthood and in mid-life) and premature (⩽65 years) mortality (all-caus…
What does self rated health measure? Results from the British Whitehall II and French Gazel cohort studies
Objectives: To investigate the determinants of self rated health (SRH) in men and women in the British Whitehall II study and the French Gazel cohort study. Methods: The cross sectional analyses reported in this paper use data from wave 1 of the Whitehall II study (1985–88) and wave 2 of the Gazel study (1990). Determinants were either self reported or obtained through medical screening and employer’s records. The Whitehall II study is based on 2…
Gender Differences in the Association Between Morbidity and Mortality Among Middle-Aged Men and Women
Objectives. We examined gender differences in mortality, morbidity, and the association between the 2. Methods. We used health data from 2 studies of middle-aged men and women: the British Whitehall II cohort of employees from 20 civil service departments in London and the 1989 French GAZEL (this acronym refers to the French gas and electric companies) of employees of France's national gas and electricity company. Participants were aged 35 to 55 …
Socio‐economic status and handedness in two large cohorts of French adults
Left‐and right‐handers have coexisted since the Palaeolithic age. Hand preference is heritable. Moreover, there is extensive evidence of an association between left‐handedness and several fitness costs. In this context, the persistence of the polymorphism is interesting. Here, we explore the associations between socio‐economic status and handedness, analysing data from two large cohorts of adult men and women. Such associations are relevant to an…
Quels dispositifs épidémiologiques d'observation de la santé en relation avec le travail
La contribution des facteurs professionnels à la santé est encore mal connue en France. On dispose malgré tout de quelques indications. Ainsi, la part des cancers attribuable aux facteurs professionnels serait de l'ordre de 3 à 8% de tous les décès par cancer. Les troubles musculo-squelettiques (TMS) représentent la première cause de maladies professionnelles. Le rôle des facteurs psychosociaux au travail (« stress ») vis-à-vis de la pathologie c…
Self-rated health before and after retirement in France (Gazel)
L’analyse du discours sur une problématique environnementale
L’article que nous proposons relate une expérience de formation destinée aux étudiants de la licence de biochimie de l’Université de La Rochelle. Ce projet vise à donner aux étudiants scientifiques des outils pour participer à des débats de société portant sur des thèmes technologiques. Notre expérience porte sur l’analyse critique de documents traitant de problématiques scientifiques, sociétales et environnementales. Présentation du projet pédag…
Diagnosis-specific sickness absence and all-cause mortality in the Gazel study
BACKGROUND: This study aims to examine diagnosis-specific sickness absence as a risk marker for all-cause mortality. METHODS: Prospective occupational cohort (the GAZEL study). Medically certified sickness absence spells >7 days for 15 diagnostic categories, 1990-1992, were examined in relation to all-cause mortality, January 1993-February 2007. The reference group for each diagnostic category was participants with no spell >7 days for that diagn…
Using Sickness Absence Records to Predict Future Depression in a Working Population
Objectives. We tested the hypothesis that sickness absence from work predicts workers' risk of later depression. Methods. Study participants (n = 7391) belonged to the French GAZEL cohort of employees of the national gas and electricity company. Sickness absence data (1996–1999) were obtained from company records. Participants' depression in 1996 and 1999 was assessed with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies–Depression (CES-D) scale. The analyse…
The Constances Cohort
The constitution of the full eligible sample is planned during the last trimester of 2010, and the cohort will be launched at the beginning of 2011
All-cause and diagnosis-specific sickness absence as a predictor of sustained suboptimal health
UNLABELLED: background: Previous studies show that sickness absence predicts health, but it is unclear whether this association is persistent over time and whether specific diseases underlie long-term associations. The aim of this study was to investigate overall and diagnosis-specific sickness absences as predictors of sustained suboptimal health. METHODS: Prospective occupational cohort study of 15 320 employees (73% men) aged 37-51. Sickness a…
Health Behaviours, Socioeconomic Status, and Mortality
BACKGROUND: Differences in morbidity and mortality between socioeconomic groups constitute one of the most consistent findings of epidemiologic research. However, research on social inequalities in health has yet to provide a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms underlying this association. In recent analysis, we showed health behaviours, assessed longitudinally over the follow-up, to explain a major proportion of the association of soci…
Do different measures of early life socioeconomic circumstances predict adult mortality? Evidence from the British Whitehall II and French Gazel studies
BACKGROUND: Father's occupational position, education and height have all been used to examine the effects of adverse early life socioeconomic circumstances on health, but it remains unknown whether they predict mortality equally well. METHODS: We used pooled data on 18,393 men and 7060 women from the Whitehall II and GAZEL cohorts to examine associations between early life socioeconomic circumstances and all-cause and cause-specific mortality. R…
Informal Caregiving and Self-Reported Mental and Physical Health
Objectives. We investigated whether, and under what conditions, informal caregiving is associated with improved self-reported physical and mental health, most notably in terms of cognitive functioning. Methods. We performed a cross-sectional analysis of 2008 data from the Gazel Cohort Study, which involved 10 687 men and women aged 54 to 70 years. Multivariate linear and logistic regression models were used to estimate the associations between se…
Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease
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