Engelsk titel: Health and re-employment in a five-year follow-up of long-term unemployed
Författare:
Claussen, Bjoergulf
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 19
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 65372
Sammanfattning
The objective was to study health and re-employment in a five-year follow-up of a community sample of long-term unemployed people. A random sample registered for more than 12 weeks at the labour offices in Grenland, Norway were given medical check-ups in 1988 and 1990, and a postal questionnaire in 1993. Recovery after re-employment was demonstrated, indicating that unemployment causes poor mental health. Health-related selection to continuous unemployment was only found for medical diagnoses. The high morbidity of mental health problems among unemployed people is mostly explained by the causal hypothesis. This is a challenge to preventive medicine. Sick unemployed people should be given special attention.