Violent death and unemployment in two trade unions in Denmark

Olsen, Jørn; Lajer, M.

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“…Living alone, however, includes single as well as divorced and other marital statuses. Olsen and Lajer (1979) do find that singleness is a significant risk factor for suicide in a sample of bricklayers and carpenters. Much work follows a psychiatric experimental design where the effect of different types of therapy is the principal independent variable (Avery and Winokur 1978).…”

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The Effect of Divorce on Suicide in Denmark, 1951–1980

Stack

1990

The Sociological Quarterly

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Past research on the effect of marital dissolution on suicide is limited largely to the cultural and institutional framework of the U.S. The present article studies Denmark, a nation with a different social context. A Cochrane‐Orcutt iterative regression analysis replicates the American‐based pattern for Denmark. The divorce index is more closely associated than the unemployment rate with changes in the suicide rate. A 1% increase in divorce is associated with a 0.32% increase in suicide. Divorce trends also predict the incidence of youth suicide. The study further confirms the generalization that links rapid change in kinship structures to suicide in industrial societies.

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Section: Discussion: Micro-level Defense Of the Ecological Findingsmentioning

confidence: 74%

The Effect of Divorce on Suicide in Denmark, 1951–1980

Stack

1990

The Sociological Quarterly

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“…The more plentiful information on mood changes and depression in the psychologically-oriented studies would also be consistent with eventual increases in the incidence of suicide and deliberate self-harm amongst the unemployed. This is indeed found (Platt and Kreitman 1984, Shepherd and Barradough 1980, Olsen and Lajer 1979. In the case of physical health, however, it is notable that the causes of death showing the highest SMRs in the OPCS Longitudinal Study (Moser, Fox and Jones 1984) are accidents and violence (not only suidde, although this is very high), lung cancer, and (in 1981-83) ischaemic heart disease (Moser et al 1987).…”

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Unemployment and health: selection or causation ‐ a false antithesis?

Bartley

1988

Sociology Health & Illness

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Observations on the effect of unemployment on health include note that the clustering in certain geographic areas of low income, job insecurity and poor housing are the experience of the same groups of people. Considerable difficulties exist in isolating the different aspects involved. Nonetheless, it is argued (1) that the effects of each separate strand are dependent upon and reinforced by the others; (2) that it is possible to clarify the ways in which the elements interrelate; and (3) that it is the whole pattern that most satisfactorily explains currently available data on unemployment and health.

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“…This may be the process producing a high risk of mortality relative to the rest of the population in those who have experienced unemployment. The conclusion to this argument, taken together with the results of studies of the effects of economic contraction (Olsen and Lajer, 1979;Lee and Harris, 1985;Lee, 1985;Walker et al, 1985) is that it is at least as useful, when trying to understand the studies we have on the health consequences of unemployment, to observe the pattern of labour force participation over time in men who have experienced unemployment, as to look for stress-related chemicals in the blood.…”

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Health and Labour Force Participation: ‘Stress’, Selection and the Reproduction Costs of Labour Power

Bartley¹

1991

J. Soc. Pol.

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This paper will discuss the applicability of concepts of 'stress' and 'selection' to which health researchers appealed in their attempts to explain the relationship between health and unemployment, and examine the implications of some of the major studies carried out in Europe and the USA for these competing approaches. The contradictions arising from this evidence will then be addressed with the aid of a technical advance in population statistics which allows us to test hypotheses about whether the associations between socio-demographic characteristics and mortality may be due to selective mobility of seriously ill persons into socially disadvantaged positions. It is concluded that a better understanding of the results of available studies may be reached if we avoid the dichotomy between 'stress' and 'selection', and explore whether concepts of labour market processes and the reproduction costs of labour power can throw new light on the relationship between health and patterns of labour force participation. The paper aims both to encourage health researchers to consider policy and market variables more closely, and to tempt researchers more specialised in these latter fields to apply recent advances in the understanding of the interaction between labour market and income maintenance policies to the question of how economic conditions and change may affect health.

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Violent death and unemployment in two trade unions in Denmark

Cited by 15 publications

References 8 publications

The Effect of Divorce on Suicide in Denmark, 1951–1980

The Effect of Divorce on Suicide in Denmark, 1951–1980

Unemployment and health: selection or causation ‐ a false antithesis?

Health and Labour Force Participation: ‘Stress’, Selection and the Reproduction Costs of Labour Power

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