Multi‐site pain and working conditions as predictors of work ability in a 4‐year follow‐up among food industry employees

Background We investigated the separate and joint effects of multi‐site musculoskeletal pain and physical and psychosocial exposures at work on future work ability. Methods A survey was conducted among employees of a F innish food industry company in 2005 ( n = 1201) and a follow‐up survey in 2009 ( n = 734). Information on self‐assessed work ability (current work ability on a scale from 0 to 10; 7 = poor work ability), multi‐site...