Archive: David Rehkopf

Mature woman working in a factory / warehouse

Abstract In this paper, we characterized health trajectories over an 18-year period for a cohort of American workers.  We used administrative data to track monthly, health-related events for six chronic diseases (asthma, arthritis, diabetes, depression, ischemic heart disease, and hypertension) including the diagnoses of new disease, hospitalizations, and outpatient visits.  Using these data, we first…