TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Alcohol-related morbidity and mortality following involuntary job loss: Evidence from swedish register data
JO  - Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs
A1  - Eliason, Marcus
SP  - 35
EP  - 46
VL  - 75
IS  - 1
N2  - OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the association between involuntary job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality. METHOD: Swedish linked employee-employer data were used to identify all establishment closures during 1990-1999, as well as the employees who were laid off and a comparison group. These data were merged with information on alcohol-attributable deaths and hospital admissions from the Causes of Death Register and the National Patient Register. The associations between job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality during a follow-up period of 12 years were estimated by propensity score weighting methods. RESULTS: An excess risk of both alcohol-related hospitalization and mortality was found among both displaced men and women. For women, the wholly alcohol-attributable health problems were mainly limited to alcohol use disorders, whereas men also had an increased risk of hospitalization from poisoning and alcohol-induced liver disease and pancreatitis. CONCLUSIONS: The findings support previous evidence of increased risks of alcohol-related morbidity/mortality following involuntary job loss, although the estimates presented herein are more conservative. In addition, the findings suggest that alcohol-related problems manifest somewhat differently in men and women. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 75, 35-46, 2014).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1937-1888
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -