Employment Status Following Heart Transplantation: Data From the Danish Nationwide Social Service Payment Register During 20 years
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Most studies on vocational rehabilitation after heart transplantation (HTX) are based on self-reported data. Danish registries include weekly longitudinal information on all public transfer payments. We intended to describe 20-year trends in employment status for the Danish heart-transplant recipients, and examine the influence of multimorbidity and socioeconomic position (SEP). Linking registry and Scandiatransplant data (1994–2018), we conducted a study in recipients of working age (19–63 years). The cohort contained 492 recipients (79% males) and the median (IQR) age was 52 years (43–57 years). Five years after HTX, 30% of the survived recipients participated on the labor market; 9% were in a flexible job with reduced health-related working capacity. Moreover, 60% were retired and 10% eligible for labor market participation were unemployed. Recipients with multimorbidity had a higher age and a lower prevalence of employment. Five years after HTX, characteristics of recipients with labor market participation were: living alone (27%) versus cohabitation (73%); low (36%) versus medium-high (64%) educational level; low (13%) or medium-high (87%) income group. Heart-transplant recipients with multimorbidity have a higher age and a lower prevalence of employment. Socioeconomically disadvantaged recipients had a lower prevalence of labor market participation, despite being younger compared with the socioeconomically advantaged.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 12230 |
Journal | Transplant International |
Volume | 37 |
Number of pages | 11 |
ISSN | 0934-0874 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2024 |
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Copyright © 2024 Mols, Løgstrup, Bakos, Horváth-Puhó, Gustafsson and Eiskjær.
- heart transplantation, labor market participation, multimorbidity, public transfer payments, socioeconomic position
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