Subas Neupane: Work demands and health in later life
Work is a fundamental determinant of health in later life, and cumulative exposure to poor working conditions increases over life course. Evidence from pooled cohort studies confirms that high psychosocial and physical work demands in midlife predict adverse aging outcomes, including elevated premature mortality, accelerated health decline, and functional limitations. Longitudinal analyses further link sustained occupational physical activity and persistent back pain to reduced functional ability in old age. These findings underscore the long-term impact of occupational exposures and highlight the critical need to mitigate adverse work demands across the working life course to promote healthy aging.
Meet the Speaker
Subas Neupane, Yliopistonlehtori, terveystieteet, Tampereen yliopisto
Subas Neupane, PhD, Docent, is an occupational epidemiologist and University Lecturer at Tampere University. He serves as Director of the master’s programme in Public and Global Health and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Public Health Research and Training at Tampere University.
His expertise covers multidisciplinary epidemiological methods, including causal inference, prediction modeling, individual participant data meta-analysis, and burden of disease estimation, with a focus on work-related illnesses. His recent research examines ‘work, retirement, and health’ from a life course perspective, investigating how working conditions from early to midlife impact health in old age. Previously, he worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop methodologies for estimating exposure to occupational risk factors for global burden of disease calculations.
Photo: Jonne Renvall, Tampere University
