Programme 2: Determinants of musculoskeletal health in the mid-lifecourse

该方案的目的是确定机械和非机械环境如何有助于中年时期的肌肉骨骼健康，并反过来确定维持工作生活和实现健康老龄化的能力。该计划的职业方面得到了外部资助的肌肉骨骼健康和工作卓越中心Versus Arthritis/MRC的进一步支持，该中心现在由Karen Walker-Bone教授指导。我们的计划已经为政策做出了贡献，向工作和养老金特别委员会提供了有关残疾就业差距的证据，以及绿色文件“工作，健康和残疾：改善生活”（2017年11月）。此外，卫生和工作联合股（卫生部和就业部）从政策角度积极关注50岁后的健康和就业队列研究。

The aim of this programme is to determine how mechanical and non-mechanical environments contribute to musculoskeletal health during midlife and, in turn, determine capacity to maintain working life and to achieve healthy ageing. Occupational aspects of the programme have been further supported by the externally-funded Versus Arthritis/MRC Centre of Excellence in Musculoskeletal Health and Work, which is now directed by Professor Karen Walker-Bone. Our programme has already contributed to policy, informing evidence to the Work and Pensions Select Committee about the disability employment gap, and the Green Paper “Work, health and disability: Improving Lives” (Nov 2017). Moreover, the Joint Health and Work Unit (DH and DWP) is taking an active interest in the Health and Employment After Fifty (HEAF) cohort study from the policy perspective.