Health-related adverse work outcomes associated with post COVID-19 condition: a cross-sectional study by Peter M Smith, Hind Sbihi, Wei Zhang, Adeera Levin, Naveed Z Janjua, Hiten Naik, Bingyue Zhu, Lee Er, Karen Tran

“…The health-related adverse work outcomes evaluated included change in occupation or employer, reduced workload, increased sick days compared with before COVID-19, early retirement and indefinite sick leave. Analyses were weighted to reflect the characteristics of individuals who had COVID-19 in BC. …”
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Assessment of six insulin resistance surrogate indexes for predicting stroke incidence in Chinese middle-aged and elderly populations with abnormal glucose metabolism: a nationwide... by Luqing Jiang, Tengxiao Zhu, Wenjing Song, Ying Zhai, Yu Tang, Fengxia Ruan, Zichen Xu, Lei Li, Xia Fu, Daoqin Liu, Aidong Chen, Qiwen Wu

“…Methods Data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) were analysed in this study. …”
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Development and validation of a hyperlipidemia risk prediction model for middle-aged and older adult Chinese using 2015 CHARLS data by Li-xiang Zhang, Shan-Bing Hou, Fang-fang Zhao, Ting-ting Wang, Ying Jiang, Xiao-juan Zhou, Jiao-yu Cao

“…ObjectiveTo develop and validate a predictive model for hyperlipidemia risk among middle-aged and older adult individuals in China, this study aims to offer an effective screening tool for identifying those at risk.MethodsIn this study, we included 6,629 middle-aged and older adult individuals, aged 45 and above, who met the inclusion criteria from the 2015 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) as our research subjects. …”
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Relationship between triglyceride glucose-body mass index baselines and variation with future cardiovascular diseases risk in the middle-aged and elderly individuals by Junpeng Qiao, Xueyu Chen, Jinhong Pang, Haicheng Fei, Zhang Liu, Fang Cheng, Qiaoqiao Chen, Yingying Zhao, Fengxue Shi, Hongying Jia, Hongying Jia, Weiwei Chi, Weiwei Chi

“…This study aims to analyze whether the baseline levels and fluctuations of triglyceride glucose-body mass index (TyG-BMI) are associated with the incidence of CVDs and their subtypes in a prospective cohort of middle-aged and elderly individuals.MethodsThe data for this study were obtained from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), which is an ongoing nationally representative prospective cohort study. …”
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The Chinese State, Incomplete Proletarianization and Structures of Inequality in Two Epochs by Wu Jieh-min, Mark Selden

“…The Chinese household registration system (hukou) has played a pivotal role in the “regulation” of the formation of the working class under conditions of free and unfree markets, in ways that invite comparison with the Act of Settlement in England prior to the era of the Speenhamland system, which hindered the movement of rural labor.5 The hukou regime has imposed conditions of severe inequality on migrants and their families, initially in the years 1960 to the late 1970s when rural to urban migration and market activity were virtually foreclosed, but also in the subsequent era when the state encouraged migration and market activity, while maintaining differential access to education, health care, retirement pensions etc., distinguishing those “sojourning” in the cities from those with full urban citizen rights on the basis of hukou.6Less studied, but equally important, in our view, is the interrelationship between inequality, on the one hand, and savings and underconsumption, on the other. …”
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Relationship between changes in the triglyceride glucose-body mass index and frail development trajectory and incidence in middle-aged and elderly individuals: a national cohort st... by Kai Guo, Qi Wang, Lin Zhang, Rui Qiao, Yujia Huo, Lipeng Jing, Xiaowan Wang, Zixuan Song, Siyu Li, Jinming Zhang, Yanfang Yang, Jinli Mahe, Zhengran Liu

“…Methods Data from 9135 participants in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2011–2020) were analysed. …”
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Association between non-insulin-based insulin resistance indicators and frailty progression: a national cohort study and mendelian randomization analysis by Hui Tian, Yong-meng Li, Cheng-qiang Wang, Guo-qiang Chen, Ying Lian

“…Methods Data from 6722 participants in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) were analyzed. …”
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Editorial by Lindsay B. Flynn

“…On the other hand, a generational conflict is possible as older cohorts look towards retirement and as governments face increasing costs from an ageing population. …”
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Authority and Moral Conflicts in the Films of Adébáyọ Fálétí: Àfọ̀njá, Gáà, Ṣawo Ṣẹ̀gbẹ̀rì and the Yorùbá Cosmopolis by Olayinka Agbetuyi

“…In addition to being staged in the theater, Gáà and Ṣawo Ṣẹgbẹ ̀ rì̀ were produced for tele[1]vision audiences as dramatic thrillers and became household favourites in the ‘70s and ‘80s at the time of his career as a radio/television broadcaster. Fálétí’s retirement from public service provided the opportunity needed to build on the experience gained in the television industry to launch a full-blown film production career for which his earlier experience seems to have been a tutelage. …”
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The efficacy of sodium-glucose transporter 2 inhibitors in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Hongsheng Li, Yanli Hou, Wenyong Xin, Lina Ding, Ying Yang, Yikun Zhang, Wenqi Wu, Zhibin Wang, Wenyu Ding

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IGJR issue 1/2018 by IF and FRFG

“…The backdrop of these new calculations is demographic ageing that has led in many Western and Asian countries to a higher percentage of voters that are pensioners or close to the retirement age. Some authors argue that the year in which voters aged 50 and older exceed 50% of all voters (after adjusting for the notoriously higher turnout rates of elderly voters) entails the danger of creeping gerontocracy – the rising resource grab of elderly voters. …”
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Presenting the Model of the Elites' Desertion Factors in Iran's Continental Plateau Oil Company by Mohammad Shaaf Amal, Ahmad Vedadi, Mehdi Tavakoli, Daryoosh Gholamzadeh

“…In line with the results obtained, it is suggested that organizations value many benefits such as social security insurance and provision of retirement resources, bonuses, annual vacation allowances and promotion and career growth opportunities; consider the skills of employees more valuable and also ensure the improvement of their personal quality of life. …”
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Call for Papers: How attractive are political parties and trade unions to young people? by IF and FRFG

“…Younger people are confronted with the rapidly changing nature of the workplace as well as the rise in temporary work and zero-hour contracts, and are probably more interested in salaries, entry requirements and work contracts, rather than in end-of-career matters such as pensions and retirement ages. The skewed age profile of trade unions could shift the discussion more towards the latter concerns, deterring younger generations and reinforcing existing age problems. …”
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Presenting a model for the establishment and maintenance of expert human resources in the government organizations of Sistan and Baluchestan province by Majid Reza Dahmardeh, Vahid pourshahabi, Amin Reza Kamalian, Habibollah Salaerzehi

“…Also, talent management can be defined as the management of the supply, demand and flow of talented people through the engine of human capital (Roknabadi & Adibzadeh, 2023).Suman (2024) in a research titled Employee Retirement and Planning for Retention in the Public and private Sectors in the United Kingdom, using a mixed method and combining quantitative and qualitative techniques, investigated the correlation between employee interaction and their retention. …”
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Designing a financial literacy development model for Farhangian University students by Mohsen Molapanah, Yousef Namvar, Azam Rastgoo, Majid Ahmadlu, Toran Soleimani

“…., which will reduce the risk-taking of people, so that before making a decision on investment, all financial products should carefully and thoughtfully evaluated, save instead of borrowing, do his own assessment of the affordability of products and services, and plan for retirement.Curriculum planners, who are the main custodians of curriculum development, using the results of this research and using the issues and general principles of financial literacy education; by developing a curriculum specific to financial literacy, should present the goals, content, method and evaluation in the form of two units of study in Farhangian University.In the current research, some limitations were effective; in the discussion of attitude measurement structure; that definite measurement is not possible. …”
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