Health effects of employment: a systematic review of prospective studies

The purpose of this review was to systematically summarise the literature on the health effects of employment.

A search for prospective studies investigating the effect of employment on health was executed in several electronic databases, and references of selected publications were checked. Subsequently, the methodological quality of each study was assessed by predefined criteria. To draw conclusions about the health effect of employment, a best evidence synthesis was used, and if possible, data were pooled.