Unstable employment and health in middle age in the longitudinal 1970 British Birth Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Jobs for life have become increasingly rare in industrialized economies, and have been replaced by shorter-term employment contracts and freelancing. This labour market change is likely to be accompanied by physiological changes in individuals who have experienced little job stability. Evolved responses to increased environmental instability or stochasticity include increased fat deposition and fight-or-flight responses, such as glucose mobilization and increased blood pressure. These responses may have evolved by natural selection as beneficial to individuals in the short-term, but are damaging in the longer term.

Methodology

This study tested whether job losses experienced between ages 30 and 42 are associated with increased body weight, hypertens

SUBMITTER: Waynforth D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5906902 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature