The cognitive impairment is an important health issue contributing to disability [ 1], morbidity [ 2] and mortality [ 3].
To be able to efficiently tackle disability retirement and support longer working careers, a better understanding of the key risk factors contributing to disability retirement is needed.
Because the prevalence of diabetes is increasing, an understanding of risk factors contributing to disability in people with diabetes has important clinical implications with respect to prevention strategies.
Household air pollution ranks as the second most important risk factor contributing to disability-adjusted life years lost for women and girls globally, behind only high blood pressure.
It is therefore not surprising that it is the second leading cause of sick leave [ 1], impacting on health care utilisation and contributing to disability and work loss.
Although age is the main risk factor for the majority of common diseases contributing to disability, reaching an old age does not necessarily result in a higher degree of age-related disability.
Our focus was on the working environment with the aim of detecting which, among the specific working conditions, are the primary risk factors contributing to disability retirement independent of other working conditions.
Whereas many of these disabilities have been attributed mostly to white matter injury, disrupted grey matter development also appears to contribute to disabilities of preterm survivors [ 2].
The extent to which musculoskeletal conditions contribute to disabilities in gait and balance should be assessed routinely when examining patients with suspected INPH.
It will also allow study of the factors that may lead to inactivity and isolation, factors and mechanisms that contribute to successful aging, and conversely those that contribute to disabilities and/or frailty [ 21].
Both qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to explore the personal and social environmental factors that contributed to disability and disablement in the different country and social settings (see [ 9, 10]).
