UNEMPLOYMENT AND ILL HEALTH: LOCAL LABOUR MARKETS AND ILL HEALTH IN BRITAIN 1984–1991
基于1984-1991年英国健康与生活方式调查数据，研究地方失业率与个体健康不佳的关系，区分高失业率和失业率上升对健康的不同影响，发现高失业率影响早逝和自评健康，而失业率上升影响工作压力。
This paper investigates the relationship between local unemployment rates and individual ill health. It is a case study of Britain in 1984–1991 based on secondary data analysis of the two sweeps of the Health and Lifestyle Survey (1993). High levels of unemployment are distinguished from increasing rates of unemployment and the effects of each on health in different employment statuses are compared, as are the outcomes for contrasting measures of ill health. Increasing rates of unemployment are seen to impact on job stress, but it is high levels of unemployment that influence premature death and self assessed health. Respiratory function is unaffected by unemployment rates. The effects of unemployment rates hold for all employment statuses, regardless of the higher job stress among the full-time employed and their otherwise better life expectancy and self assessed health. The relationships for unemployment rates and employment status are not confounded by sex, age, region or social class.