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Strategies of research on economic instability and health1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Stanislav V. Kasl
Stanislav V. Kasl*
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., USA.
*
2 Address for correspondence: Professor S. V. Kasl, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, 60 College Street, PO Box 3333, New Haven, Conn. 06510, USA.
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Synopsis

Recent research on unemployment and health has depended heavily on macro-social and ecological data analyses. In order to redress this imbalance, the report summarizes the methods and results of a prospective study of a permanent factory shutdown, thereby illustrating and dissecting some of the strengths and weaknesses of the micro-epidemiological level of analysis. This leads to a broader analysis of research strategy questions which consider macro and micro approaches and variations on the two.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , August 1982 , pp. 637 - 649
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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Footnotes

1

This is a revised version of a paper presented at the Symposium on Influence of Economic Instability on Health, 9–11 September 1981, in Munich, west Germany.

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