title: Unemployment and dispensed prescribed antidepressants in Stockholm County 1998-09.
abstract: The association between unemployment rates and population mental health has been studied with contradictory results. We examine the association between unemployment and antidepressants in Stockholm County. Age- and sex-specific monthly data on unemployment and dispensed prescribed antidepressants from January 1998 to January 2008 in Stockholm County were used. The association was studied with bivariate cointegration analysis with stationarity check of the residuals. We found that dispensing of antidepressants was inversely associated with unemployment. One interpretation is that antidepressants have not followed decreasing unemployment rates.
authors: 1 Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden andreas.lundin@ki.se.
authors: Andreas
authors: A
authors: Lundin
authors: 2 Department of Statistics and Comparisons, National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors: Anders
authors: A
authors: Hansson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology; D014478:Unemployment / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D000928:Antidepressive Agents