Hammarström A
Department of Family Medicine, University of Umeå, Sweden.
Public Health. 1994 Nov;108(6):403-12. doi: 10.1016/s0033-3506(94)80097-9.
Youth unemployment is of increasing importance, not only as a social but also as a clinical problem.
A prospective study was conducted during a five-year period in a municipality in the northern part of Sweden, where the youth unemployment rate was between 6% and 8%. All 1,083 pupils in the last year of compulsory schooling were included in the study and 98% of them were followed up after five years. The methods of investigation consisted of comprehensive self-administered questionnaires as well as blood pressure measurements and interviews with those who had been unemployed.
The main results of the study are that there is a greater increase in physical and psychological symptoms as well as smoking habits and use of cannabis among long-term unemployed young people than among those not long-term unemployed. In addition systolic blood pressure, alcohol consumption and crime rate increase more among long-term unemployed boys than among others.
Youth unemployment is associated with increased health symptoms, increased systolic blood pressure and a deterioration in health behaviour.
青年失业不仅作为一个社会问题，而且作为一个临床问题，其重要性日益凸显。
在瑞典北部一个市进行了一项为期五年的前瞻性研究，该市青年失业率在6%至8%之间。所有1083名义务教育最后一年的学生都纳入了研究，其中98%在五年后接受了随访。调查方法包括综合的自填问卷、血压测量以及对失业者的访谈。
该研究的主要结果是，长期失业的年轻人在身体和心理症状、吸烟习惯以及大麻使用方面的增加幅度大于非长期失业的年轻人。此外，长期失业男孩的收缩压、酒精消费量和犯罪率的增幅高于其他人。
青年失业与健康症状增加、收缩压升高以及健康行为恶化有关。
