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Family Practice Vol. 6, No. 1 Printed in Great Britain © Oxford University Press 1989 Unemployment and Ill-Health: Is the Question Going Away? AM D PORTER It is now 10 years since Harvey Brenner published his others who find life preferable as an invalid, and there research findings on the relationship between mor- are certainly others whose work place is hazardous to tality and the national economy in England and their health and well-being. However, all the recent Wales.1 These years have witnessed a rise in the evidence reveals significant causal relationships number of people in the UK registered as unemployed between unemployment, job insecurity and family ill- from 1.26 million in August 1979 (Department of health.3^ Introducing a book commissioned by the Employment seasonally adjusted count) to 3.2 million European Regional Office of the WHO, Schwefel and in August 1986. Since then the count has declined to colleagues9 comment: "The overwhelming majority of 2.8 million in June 1988, and is still falling. British the unemployed suffer severely; so do many of the academic interest in the relationship between unem- over-employed, as well as those who are still employed ployment and ill-health has followed a rather similar but fear
Family Practice – Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 1, 1989
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