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Job insecurity threat to the nation's health

LIZ HUNT

Health Editor

Rising levels of job insecurity among white-collar workers will mean poorer health in the general population, according to the most comprehensive study to date of the before and after effects of threatened redundancy.

Researchers say that living with the threat of unemployment or forced job change has a deleterious effect on health even when the fears eventually prove groundless.

They say their findings are relevant to the privatisation of public services and other rationalisation programmes being carried out in the private sector.

The on-going study, known as the Whitehall II study, involving more than 10,000 civil servants, found that workers who thought they were at ...

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