Health consequences of youth unemployment

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Public Health

Volume 108, Issue 6, November 1994, Pages 403-412

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Abstract

Background

Youth unemployment is of increasing importance, not only as a social but0689 also as a clinical problem.

Methods

A prospective study was conducted during a five-year period in a municipality0689 in the northern part of Sweden, where the youth unemployment rate was between 6% and 8%. All 1,083 pupils in the last year of compulsory schooling were included in the study and 98% of them were followed up after five years. The methods of investigation consisted of comprehensive self-administered questionnaires as well as blood pressure measurements and interviews with those who had been unemployed.

Results

The main results of the study are that there is a greater increase in physical and 0689 psychological symptoms as well as smoking habits and use of cannabis among long-term unemployed young people than among those not long-term unemployed. In addition systolic blood pressure, alcohol consumption and crime rate increase more among long-term unemployed boys than among others.

Conclusions

Youth unemployment is associated with increased health symptoms, 0689 increased systolic blood pressure and a deterioration in health behaviour.

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