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The purpose of this study, performed in a Swedish municipality, was to obtain a view of early retirement pensioners, focusing on immigration and socio-economy as predictors of early retirement pensions. A questionnaire was sent to 453 early retirement pensioners with disorders of the musculoskeletal system. A corresponding questionnaire was sent to a randomly selected, age- and sex-matched control group of the same size. The response rate was 83%. The study concludes that immigration and low socio-economy are predictors of early retirement pension (ERP). The rate of immigrants was 19% among the ERPs compared to 5% among the controls. The early retired immigrants were comparatively young, and some of them were overqualified for their previous jobs. Of the ERPs 74% were blue-collar workers compared to 39% of the controls. Neither work satisfaction nor unemployment was found to predict ERP.
Assuntos
Emigração e Imigração , Doenças Musculoesqueléticas , Pensões , Aposentadoria , Seguridade Social , Fatores Socioeconômicos , Adulto , Fatores Etários , Educação , Feminino , Habitação , Humanos , Satisfação no Emprego , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Ocupações , Fatores Sexuais , Inquéritos e Questionários , SuéciaRESUMO
In the course of a one-year study, 78 out of 239 samples from a Central European municipal water supply were found to contain Aeromonas species. Biotyping and hemolysin titers according to the criteria of Burke et al. (1) showed that almost 50% of the tested strains can be presumed to be enterotoxin-producing. The remaining microbiological parameters met international standards (20).
