Health and unemployment: 14 years of follow-up on job loss in the Norwegian HUNT Study.

ABSTRACT:

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 becoming unemployed. We prospectively investigated a wide range of health measures and subsequent risk of unemployment during 14 years of follow-up.

Methods

Self-reported health data from 36 249 participants in the Norwegian HUNT2 Study (1995-1997) was linked by a personal identification number to the National Insurance Database (1992-2008). Exact dates of unemployment were available. Cox's proportional hazard models were used to estimate hazard ratios (HR) for the association of unemployment with several health measures. Adjustment variables were age, gender, education, marital status, occupation, li

SUBMITTER: Kaspersen SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5885940 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature