148 Chapter 7 CONCLUSION This study shows that for both working and non-working disability benefit applicants the association of inability to work fulltime with having paid employment one year after the assessment is limited. However, within specific disease groups, inability to work fulltime increases or decreases the odds of having paid employment. For applicants working at baseline and diagnosed with a musculoskeletal disease, inability to work fulltime was positively associated with having paid employment one year later. For applicants with cancer, respiratory diseases and multimorbidity, inability to work fulltime showed a trend towards significance in being negatively associated with having paid employment a year later.
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