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Unemployment, the Unemployed, and Health

An analysis of the Dutch situation

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Influence of Economic Instability on Health

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics ((LNMED,volume 21))

Abstract

In this paper the main attention will be given to the subjective experience of being unemployed. This experience is influenced by a number of social factors and is also related to (health) effects of unemployment, which can be devided into physical and psychosocial effects. The Hypothesis can be drawn from the published research results, and on this basis we shall explore various possibilities for the formulation of problems that might be investigated.

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Spruit, I.P. (1983). Unemployment, the Unemployed, and Health. In: John, J., Schwefel, D., Zöllner, H. (eds) Influence of Economic Instability on Health. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07891-4_15

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