HEALTH OF UNEMPLOYED MIDDLE-AGED MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN

摘要: The frequencies of several factors, including major physical disease, in employed and unemployed men enrolled the British Regional Heart Study (BRHS) have been compared. BRHS is a prospective study cardiovascular disease middle-aged selected at random from general practices twenty-four towns. group was subdivided into those who said they were because ill-health regarded their unemployment as not due to illness. ill reported much higher rate doctor-diagnosed illnesses than not-ill or employed. bronchitis, obstructive lung ischaemic heart employed, with highest rates unemployed. frequency hypertension same men. Cigarette smoking heavy drinking apparently more common among unemployed, but after adjustment for social class town residence only slightly Use tranquillisers three four times In this study, had far chronic whether themselves ill. Studies health consequences must allow pre-existing state health, evidence on cannot rely solely self-reporting