The impact of late career job loss on myocardial infarction and stroke: a 10 year follow up using the health and retirement survey

Abstract

Results suggest that the true costs of late career unemployment exceed financial deprivation, and include substantial health consequences. Physicians who treat individuals who lose jobs as they near retirement should consider the loss of employment a potential risk factor for adverse vascular health changes. Policy makers and programme planners should also be aware of the risks of job loss, so that programmatic interventions can be designed and implemented to ease the multiple burdens of joblessness.

Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality

“…Bamia et al (2008) find that the risk of all-cause mortality is significantly higher for retirees than for older workers still engaged in economic activity. This finding is consistent with the results of Gallo et al (2006), who argue that job loss increases individuals' risk of cardiovascular disease and therefore has detrimental effects on the health of older workers. Morris et al (1994) also find increases risk of cardiovascular disease for the UK.…”

Psychosocial Risk Factors for Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results of a Case-Control Study in a Teaching Hospital at Karachi, Pakistan

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Health in the Long-Term Unemployed

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