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this earlier - sorry
Unemployment and health - Health benefits vary according to the method
of reducing unemployment
Danny Dorling
BMJ 2009;338:b829
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The best guides we have to the possible future effects of mass
unemployment are studies of previous epidemics. In men who had been
continuously employed for at least five years in the late 1970s,
mortality doubled in the five years after redundancy for those aged
40-59 in 1980.
Adjustment for socioeconomic^ variables, previous health related
behaviours, and other health^ indicators had almost no effect on this
increase.
The increased risk of mortality after redundancy tends to be greater in
men than in women because men are generally affected more from a
prevailing belief that when things go wrong no one will be there to help.
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