Li X, et al. - Researchers examined how health status influence work exit and absenteeism among the older working population in China. They performed a secondary analysis of a cohort sample of adults engaged in either agricultural or non-agriculture work or both in the 2011 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study and whose age was 45–55 years for women or 45–60 years for men in the 2013 wave. Observations suggest that poor 2-year lagged health is prognosticative of work exit for both male and female farmers and raises the absent workdays in all older working population. Deleterious influences of persistently poor health or recent health deterioration overtime on the labor market were thus evident with respect to work exit and absenteeism among all older Chinese workers except for female non-farmers.