An uncertain future: The health effects of threats to employment security in white-collar men and women

J.E. Ferrie, M.J. Shipley, M.G. Marmot, S.A. Stansfeld and G.D. Smith

American Journal of Public Health, 1998, vol. 88, issue 7, 1030-1036

Abstract: Objectives. This study examined changes in the health status of civil servants whose employment security was threatened. Methods. Data were derived from a longitudinal cohort of 10 308 men and women, office staff in 20 British civil service departments. Physiological measurements, self-reported morbidity, and health-related behaviors for 530 members of the department under threat were compared with those of 19 other departments, during the period of uncertainty and during stable employment 5 years earlier. Results. From a position of advantage or no difference at baseline, self-reported morbidity and physiological risk factors tended to increase among respondents from the threatened department compared with those from other departments. For both sexes, increases were significant for body mass index (P

Date: 1998
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