title: [A health survey of persons unemployed for a long time in Greenland].
abstract: In 1988 a random sample of 310 unemployed aged 16 to 63 years who had been registered for more than 12 weeks and lived in the four municipalities of Greenland was examined by a doctor and a nurse. Self-reported health and psychometric tests produced higher prevalences of disease than in a reference population of employed persons. On the basis of both clinical examination and the testing, 22% of the unemployed, were judged to be depressed, as against 2% in the reference group. 17% of the unemployed were scored as "morbidly anxious" and 17% as psychosomatically sick, as against 2% and 4% of the references. The health and social services which the group had received were regarded as unsatisfactory, both by the doctor and by the unemployed themselves. A special health maintenance programme is proposed for long-term unemployed.
authors.affiliation: Seksjon for helsetjenesteforskning, Avdeling for Samfunnsmedisin, Statens Institutt for Folkehelse, Oslo.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Claussen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006116:Greenland; D006304:Health Status; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014478:Unemployment / Q000523:psychology
vernacular_title: En helseundersøkelse av lengre tids arbeidsløse i Grenland.