Background Almost all studies on the effect on health from unemployment have concluded
that unemployment is bad for your health. However, only a few review articles have dealt …

Background Previous studies have shown that unemployment has negative impacts on
various aspects of health. However, little is known about the effect of unemployment on …

Abstract The Great Recession of 2008 has led to elevated unemployment in Europe and
thereby revitalised the question of causal health effects of unemployment. This article …

This paper reports a metaanalysis of the relationship between unemployment and health.
Our metadataset consisted of 327 study results taken from 65 articles published in peer …

Background: There is a need for more research on the health impact of changes in the
national unemployment rate. Therefore, the present study was carried out to compare levels …

We examine the relationship between unemployment and selfassessed health using the
European Community Household Panel for Finland over the period 1996–2001. Our results …

Background The relationship between unemployment and poor health has been well
established. Unemployment causes poor health, and poor health increases the probability of …

Background: Many studies have investigated how unemployment influences health, less
attention has been paid to the reverse causal direction; how health may influence the risk of …

Objectives. Research has given a comprehensive picture of the negative health
consequences of unemployment without offering sufficient comparison between different …

While there is a large and growing literature investigating the relationship between an
individual's employment status and health, considerably less is known about the effect on …