Occupation, employment status, and "despair"-associated mortality risk among working-aged U.S. adults, 1997-2015.

ABSTRACT: The recent rise in U.S. midlife mortality has been conceptualized as a "working-class" crisis, defined by increasing mortality among blue-collar and/or unemployed workers and the decline of manual labor; yet research on the topic overwhelmingly focuses on educational attainment as the key socioeconomic determinant of midlife mortality, especially among "despair"-related deaths. The present study addresses this gap by using data on 360,146 adults ages 25-64 from restricted-use National Health Interview Survey-Linked Mortality Files (1997-2015; average follow-up 9.87 years) to estimate associations between individuals' occupation and employment status and alcoholic liver disease, suicide, or accidental poisoning mortality risk, net of confounders. Adults in service, manual labor, and transpo

SUBMITTER: Gutin I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7311220 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature