Perceived Work Ability in the Light of Long-Term and Stress-Related Unhealthy Behaviors—a Prospective Cohort Study

Most of the few studies that exist on the longitudinal associations between health behaviors and work ability target to single health behaviors.To investigate how lifetime clusters of unhealthy behaviors associate with perceived work ability in early midlife.The study population consisted of 46-year-old men and women (n = 3107) born in Northern Finland in 1966. Their current perceived work ability compared to lifetime best, and their unhealthy...