The association between employment status and health among British adults with and without intellectual impairments: cross-sectional analyses of a cohort study.

The available research that does exist on the health of the economically inactive suggests that: (1) the health of economically inactive adults is broadly similar to that of the unemployed; [ 10 , 13 – 16 ] (2) moving from economic inactivity due to sickness or disability into employment is associated with a decreased risk of reporting poor health; [ 15 , 17 – 21 ] and (3) both unemployment and economic inactivity are highly significant predictors of the onset of limiting longstanding illness [ 18 ].

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