Work Force 2008

Losing your job, you can get sick

by admin on 27/03/09 at 4:05 am

Losing the job increases the likelihood of the disease, and to face a firing may increase the risk not only to diseases affecting the stomach (which is more typical), but also can develop problems such as: hypertension, cardiac, stroke or diabetes, according to a new study suggests.
In some cases, statistics have shown that the chances of getting sick because of the loss of a job have increased from 50 to 80 percent.

The current economic recession has left millions of Americans under the impact of sudden loss of employment, now standing at 8.9 percent nationally, resulting in the loss of 5.7 million jobs since the beginning of the recession in December 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S..
“In today’s economy, job loss can happen to anyone,” said Kate Strully, who led the new research as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health.
We must be aware of the consequences for health caused by the loss of work and do everything possible to alleviate the negative effects. ”

Previous studies have found a relationship between job loss and ill health, indicating that some workers with health problems are more likely to lose their jobs, and the reverse is also true that job loss can lead to certain health problems, said Strully.
Of course, not all health problems are necessarily likely to be caused or aggravated by the loss of work, but the stress related to the situation, increasing the likelihood to be affected, resulting in cases involving the cerebro-vascular accidents, hypertension, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes and emotional resulting in psychiatric problems, according to investigators.