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The early years of working life differ for newly qualified nurses and midwives working in hospitals and comparable graduates working in other sectors. Louise Schubert Paaske, a Ph.D. student in health economics at the Danish Centre for Health Economics (DaCHE) at the University of Southern Denmark, and her colleagues have used Danish national registers to follow the graduates' health trajectories over their first six years in employment. The study is published in the journal Communications Health.

The study shows that hospital-based nurses and midwives have higher rates of long-term sick leave and are more frequently diagnosed with back disorders during the first four years. Around 13% leave hospital work within six years, and the analyses show increasing health problems in the period leading up to their departure and improvements in some health outcomes afterward.

The study follows newly qualified graduates from their first job and for six years thereafter. This distinguishes it from much of the existing research in the field, which has examined employees later in their working lives.

This is an important distinction because employees experiencing strain or health problems may already have moved to another sector or left the labor market altogether by that point.

"We can see the differences as early as the first years in employment, long before we can talk about the effects of wear and tear over a long working life.

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