Employment Status and Alcohol-Attributable Mortality Risk-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Being unemployed has been linked to various health burdens. In particular, there appears to be an association between unemployment and alcohol-attributable deaths. However, risk estimates presented in a previous review were based on only two studies. Thus, we estimated updated sex-stratified alcohol-attributable mortality risks for unemployed compared with employed individuals. A systematic literature search was conducted in August 2020 using the following databases: Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Web of Science. The relative risk (RR) of dying from an alcohol-attributable cause of death for unemployed compared with employed individuals was summarized using sex-stratified random-effects DerSimonian-Laird meta-analyses. A total of 10 studies were identified, comprising about 14.4 million wo

SUBMITTER: Saul C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9224380 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature