Background: Birthweight is a widely accepted indicator of infant health and has signifcant and lasting associations …. Several studies have found that low and high birthweight have signifcant negative associations with adult health. A new study … health but also social attributes, such as income and occupation; however, no studies have evaluated the associations between …

This study examines the health capacity to work among older persons in Japan-that is, how much longer older persons can … work based on their health status using nationwide population-based surveys. We first examine how much older persons could … work if they worked as much as those with the same mortality rate in the past (Milligan-Wise method). Second, we estimate …