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Cohort profile: the Spanish WORKing life Social Security (WORKss) cohort study

PURPOSE: The global economy is changing the labour market and social protection systems in Europe. The effect of both changes on health needs to be monitored in view of an ageing population and the resulting increase in prevalence of chronic health conditions. The Spanish WORKing life Social Securit...

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Autores principales: López Gómez, María Andrée, Durán, Xavier, Zaballa, Elena, Sanchez-Niubo, Albert, Delclos, George L, Benavides, Fernando G
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4785286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26951209
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008555
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author López Gómez, María Andrée
Durán, Xavier
Zaballa, Elena
Sanchez-Niubo, Albert
Delclos, George L
Benavides, Fernando G
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Durán, Xavier
Zaballa, Elena
Sanchez-Niubo, Albert
Delclos, George L
Benavides, Fernando G
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description PURPOSE: The global economy is changing the labour market and social protection systems in Europe. The effect of both changes on health needs to be monitored in view of an ageing population and the resulting increase in prevalence of chronic health conditions. The Spanish WORKing life Social Security (WORKss) cohort study provides unique longitudinal data to study the impact of labour trajectories and employment conditions on health, in terms of sickness absence, permanent disability and death. PARTICIPANTS: The WORKss cohort originated from the Continuous Working Life Sample (CWLS) generated by the General Directorate for the Organization of the Social Security in Spain. The CWLS contains a 4% representative sample of all individuals in contact with the Social Security system. The WORKss cohort exclusively includes individuals with a labour trajectory from 1981 or later. In 2004, the cohort was initiated with 1 022 779 Social Security members: 840 770 (82.2%) contributors and 182 009 (17.8%) beneficiaries aged 16 and older. FINDINGS TO DATE: The WORKss cohort includes demographic characteristics, chronological data about employment history, retirement, permanent disability and death. These data make possible the measurement of incidence of permanent disability, the number of potential years of working life lost, and the number of contracts and inactive periods with the Social Security system. The WORKss cohort was linked to temporary sickness absence registries to study medical diagnoses that lead to permanent disability and consequently to an earlier exit from the labour market in unhealthy conditions. FUTURE PLANS: Thanks to its administrative source, the WORKss cohort study will continue follow-up in the coming years, keeping the representativeness of the Spanish population affiliated to the Social Security system. The linkage between the WORKss cohort and temporary sickness absence registries is envisioned to continue. Future plans include the linkage of the cohort with mortality registries.
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spelling pubmed-47852862016-03-14 Cohort profile: the Spanish WORKing life Social Security (WORKss) cohort study López Gómez, María Andrée Durán, Xavier Zaballa, Elena Sanchez-Niubo, Albert Delclos, George L Benavides, Fernando G BMJ Open Occupational and Environmental Medicine PURPOSE: The global economy is changing the labour market and social protection systems in Europe. The effect of both changes on health needs to be monitored in view of an ageing population and the resulting increase in prevalence of chronic health conditions. The Spanish WORKing life Social Security (WORKss) cohort study provides unique longitudinal data to study the impact of labour trajectories and employment conditions on health, in terms of sickness absence, permanent disability and death. PARTICIPANTS: The WORKss cohort originated from the Continuous Working Life Sample (CWLS) generated by the General Directorate for the Organization of the Social Security in Spain. The CWLS contains a 4% representative sample of all individuals in contact with the Social Security system. The WORKss cohort exclusively includes individuals with a labour trajectory from 1981 or later. In 2004, the cohort was initiated with 1 022 779 Social Security members: 840 770 (82.2%) contributors and 182 009 (17.8%) beneficiaries aged 16 and older. FINDINGS TO DATE: The WORKss cohort includes demographic characteristics, chronological data about employment history, retirement, permanent disability and death. These data make possible the measurement of incidence of permanent disability, the number of potential years of working life lost, and the number of contracts and inactive periods with the Social Security system. The WORKss cohort was linked to temporary sickness absence registries to study medical diagnoses that lead to permanent disability and consequently to an earlier exit from the labour market in unhealthy conditions. FUTURE PLANS: Thanks to its administrative source, the WORKss cohort study will continue follow-up in the coming years, keeping the representativeness of the Spanish population affiliated to the Social Security system. The linkage between the WORKss cohort and temporary sickness absence registries is envisioned to continue. Future plans include the linkage of the cohort with mortality registries. BMJ Publishing Group 2016-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4785286/ /pubmed/26951209 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008555 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Zaballa, Elena
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Delclos, George L
Benavides, Fernando G
Cohort profile: the Spanish WORKing life Social Security (WORKss) cohort study
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title_full_unstemmed Cohort profile: the Spanish WORKing life Social Security (WORKss) cohort study
title_short Cohort profile: the Spanish WORKing life Social Security (WORKss) cohort study
title_sort cohort profile: the spanish working life social security (workss) cohort study
topic Occupational and Environmental Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4785286/
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