An agenda for unemployment research: a challenge for public health.
Unemployment figures are high worldwide, and this should be a challenge for both researchers and politicians. Public health research has a tradition of descriptive studies among the unemployed at the individual level and has to a limited extent been engaged in interventive and preventive trials to study the effect of different measures to counter unemployment. The article gives a brief review of the development of postwar unemployment research and proposes an agenda for unemployment research within public health for the coming years.
Hammarström
Anne
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Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Family Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden. anne.hammarstrom@fammed.umu.se
Janlert
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D014943:Global Health; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D012106:Research; D014478:Unemployment