Unemployment insurance and deteriorating self-rated health in 23 European countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The global financial crisis of 2008 is likely to have repercussions on public health in Europe, not least through escalating mass unemployment, fiscal austerity measures and inadequate social protection systems. The purpose of this study is to analyse the role of unemployment insurance for deteriorating self-rated health in the working age population at the onset of the fiscal crisis in Europe.

Methods

Multilevel logistic conditional change models linking institutional-level data on coverage and income replacement in unemployment insurance to individual-level panel data on self-rated health in 23 European countries at two repeated occasions, 2006 and 2009.

Results

Unemployment insurance significantly reduces transitions into self-rated ill-health and, parti

SUBMITTER: Ferrarini T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4112438 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature