Employment quality and suicide, drug poisoning, and alcohol-attributable mortality.

ABSTRACT: Suicide, drug poisoning, and alcohol-attributable mortality (SDAM)-often labeled "deaths of despair"-are increasing among working-aged individuals in many high-income countries. We examined the association between employment quality and SDAM in Canada. Census records from the 2006 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (n = 2 805 550) were linked to mortality data from 2006 to 2019. Latent class analysis identified 5 employment quality types: standard (secure and rewarding), portfolio (rewarding but demanding), marginal (limited hours and earnings), intermittent (sporadic and unstable), and precarious (insecure and unrewarding). Poisson regression models estimated sex/gender-stratified associations between employment quality type and SDAM separately. We observed a consistent mortali

SUBMITTER: Andreacchi AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12342864 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature