Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5114876 | Health & Place | 2017 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
This study examines whether neighbourhood unemployment is related to functional somatic symptoms, independently of the individual employment, across the life course and at four specific life course periods (age 16, 21, 30 and 42). Self-reported questioner data was used from a 26-year prospective Swedish cohort (n=1010) with complementary neighbourhood register data. A longitudinal and a set of age-specific cross-sectional hierarchal linear regressions was carried out. The results suggest that living in a neighbourhood with high unemployment has implications for residents' level of functional somatic symptoms, regardless of their own unemployment across time, particularly at age 30.
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Authors
Anna Brydsten, Per E. Gustafsson, Anne Hammarström, Miguel San Sebastian,