Open AccessLabour market conditions, labour force activity and prevalence of psychiatric disorders
Author(s) -
Geoff Waghorn,
David Chant,
Chris Lloyd,
Meredith Harris
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1433-9285
pISSN - 0933-7954
DOI - 10.1007/s00127-008-0429-7
Subject(s) - anxiety , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , population , depression (economics) , psychiatry , medicine , epidemiology , young adult , psychology , demography , gerontology , environmental health , economics , sociology , macroeconomics
At a population level, the extent that labour market conditions influence labour force activity among people with psychiatric disorders, remains equivocal. Similarly equivocal is the hypothesised relationship between economic conditions and the reported prevalence of specific psychiatric disorders. We investigated these issues by examining the extent that labour market conditions were associated with change in labour force activity among people with anxiety disorders, affective disorders, and schizophrenia, in comparison to healthy working age adults.
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