Losing Your Job Can Make You Sick
New research from the US suggests that losing your job can make you sick by raising your risk of developing new health problems like high blood pressure, heart disease, heart attack, stroke or diabetes, even if you find a new job soon after.
The study was the work of Kate Strully, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Albany, New York, and is shortly to be published in the May 2009 issue of the journal Demography. Strully did the research as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Strully said that in today’s economy anyone could be at risk of losing their job.