There is an increasing body of evidence on the cumulative
effects of health inequalities related to socio-economic
status,andwhilesomeofthesedodis-aggregatethedataon
men and women, there is rarely an analysis of the implications
of gender difference for future policy development
and practitioner services. Such research would serve to inform
the design of work-related health improvement programmes,
so that they can be based on a deeper
understandingofwhatiseffectiveinparticularcircumstances
with certain groups of people. The changing ethnic
compositionoftheolderpopulationandtherecentincrease
inmigrantworkersrequiresfurtherresearchandanalysisto
investigatetheimpactofworkonhealthamongolderworkersfromdifferentethnicgroupsandtheimplications
ofthis
for health services in the future