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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on January 17, 2008
The European Journal of Public Health 2008 18(3):235-237; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm130
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Work and Health

The impact of psychosocial work environment factors on the risk of disability pension in Denmark

Karl B. Christensen, Helene Feveile, Merete Labriola and Thomas Lund

National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

Correspondence: Karl B. Christensen, National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark, tel: +45 3916 5458. fax: +45 3916 5201. e-mail: KBC{at}NRCWE.DK

Received June 29, 2007 , accepted December 14, 2007

This study quantifies the impact of psychosocial work environment factors on the risk of disability pension. Differences in risk of disability pension were estimated in a representative sample of Danish employees followed for a total of 118 117 person-years of risk time. After control for smoking, BMI and ergonomic work environment, low decision authority and low variation in work showed a statistically significant association with disability pension. Adverse psychosocial work environment factors accounted for 10–15% of disability pension cases.

Keywords: disability pension, psychosocial work environment factors, register data


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