HOW DOES UNEMPLOYMENT LEAD TO POOR

HEALTH?
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WHAT IS SOCIAL DETERMINANTS

- Different factors that effects ones health of an individual and community

- Social and economic environment
- Physical health
- Person’s individual characteristic and behaviors.
- Examples: where they grew up, your housing, education or what kind of job
do you have
HOW DOES UNEMPLOYMENT LEAD TO POOR HEALTH?
• Why is this important?
• see the social and economic ups and downs
• effect different types of people
• see how there health changes over time

• what issues and inequalities does this topic raise and for whom?
• This issue impacts everyone. We all need health care, our health is
unpredictable, illnesses, and diseases, affect everyone differently. If everyone
receives health care through an employer, then those unemployed would to
without. An illness can be devastating and may lead to work termination,
leaving the individual without care. In addition, that person has the potential
of getting his family and other sick.
 
 MENTAL HEALTH

• Causing depression
• Low self-esteem
• Increase your psychological distress
• Increase anxiety due to finical hardship
• Less physical active
• Mental health is the number one condition leading to unemployment
• The unemployed repots to have poorer mental health than physical health.
• Unemployment, along with stressful events as a result of unemployment will aggravate mental health.
• Reduced income from unemployment increases mental distress

Book/Articles: (Davies, A. R., Homolova, L. N. B., Grey, C. A., & Bellis, M., 2017), (Kieselbach, T., Winefield, A. H., Boyd, C., & Anderson, S.,2007), (McDaid, D., Hewlett, E., & Park, A. 2017), & (Perkins, R., &
Rinaldi, M. 2002)
 PHYSICAL HEALTH

• The research shows people with physical health problems have difficulty
in finding job that prolongs their unemployment.
• Poor mental health is just a strong as a predictor of unemployment as
physical health.
• Unemployed people feel unhealthier than those employed.

Articles: (Hamilton, V. H., Merrigan, P., & Dufresne, É. 1997) & (Roberts, H., Pearson, J. C., Madeley, R. J., Hanford, S., & Magowan, R. 1997)
 FAMILY HEALTH

• Family dynamic might change

• move to find another job
• Reduce income
• Increase stress on family
• Children
• Negative effects on child health, education
• Pass it on to the next generation

• The research reveals that the unemployed have less quality of support than those that are employed.
• Unemployment leads to stress and mental health issues which impacts family life.

Articles: (Dooley, D. 1996) & (Virtanen, P., Janlert, U., & Hammarström, A. 2013)
 SOCIAL HEALTH

• Social Health
• Won’t see friends often
• Stays in to save money
• Feel lonely
• Unemployed Anglo-Saxon women have a stronger negative health affect than men. Therefore, unhealthy women are
more likely to become unemployed than unhealthy men.
• In general, actual unemployed men and women are likely to be from lower socioeconomic groups than employed
people in welfare state regimes.
• Loss a of job may lead to unhealthy behaviors such as abuse in drinking, eating and experimental drug use.

Article: (Bambra, C., & Eikemo, T. A. 2008), (Kieselbach, T., Winefield, A. H., Boyd, C., & Anderson, S. 2007), (Wilkinson, R., & Marmot, M. 2003),
 POSTER
• Welsh poster
• Is the evidence base limited approach?
• Thought my whole research every document I have found
stated there's need to be more research and funding on this
topic .

• Per the research there is a direct correlation between

employability and mental health, employability improves mental
health and stronger health improves employability. The research
finds that the relationship between unemployment and health is
consistent across all 23 European counties with the unemployed in
each country reporting worse self-reported health than the
employed. Stress attributed to family tension and financial worries
are likely to have contributed to both poor mental health scores
and poor social support

Articles: Mass Unemployment Events (MUEs) – Prevention and Response from a Public Health Perspective, Mass Unemployment
Events (MUEs)
CASE STUDY

• Who: my mom, my grandpa and myself

• We are at different stages in our lives. Grandpa had a life where he had
worked in physical jobs, My mom worked in an office and I’m a student.
• Both Grandpa and my mom were laid off from work.
• They ran the risk of getting sick, and if we did get sick, we would not see a
doctor because of a lack of insurance/money.
• When people don’t see a doctor, they run the risk of getting others sick.
 REFERENCES

Bambra, C., & Eikemo, T. A. (2008). Welfare state regimes, unemployment and health: a comparative study of the
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Davies, A. R., Homolova, L. N. B., Grey, C. A., & Bellis, M. (2017). Mass Unemployment Events (MUEs) –
Prevention and Response from a Public Health Perspective, Mass Unemployment Events (MUEs) –
Prevention and Response from a Public Health Perspective Public Health Wales NHS Trust. 1–80
 
Dooley, D. (1996). Health and Unemployment. Annual Review of Public Health, 17(1), 449-465.
 
Hamilton, V. H., Merrigan, P., & Dufresne, É. (1997). Down and out: estimating the relationship between mental
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Kieselbach, T., Winefield, A. H., Boyd, C., & Anderson, S. (2007). Unemployment and Health : International and
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 REFERENCES CONT.

 McDaid, D., Hewlett, E., & Park, A. (2017). Understanding effective approaches to promoting mental health and
preventing mental illness. Paris: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
 
Perkins, R., & Rinaldi, M. (2002). Unemployment rates among patients with long-term mental health
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Roberts, H., Pearson, J. C., Madeley, R. J., Hanford, S., & Magowan, R. (1997). Unemployment and health: the quality
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