"Economic growth is the single most important factor relating to length of life," said principal investigator M. Harvey Brenner, visiting professor in the Global Health Division of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine. Brenner is also professor of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins University and senior professor of epidemiology at Berlin University of Technology.
"Employment is the essential element of social status and it establishes a person as a contributing member of society and also has very important implications for self-esteem," said Brenner. "When that is taken away, people become susceptible to depression, cardiovascular disease, AIDS and many other illnesses that increase mortality."
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Brenner said the best way to address the issue of unemployment and mortality is to have a society that invests in educating people in the kinds of jobs that will drive the 21st century, such as science and technology fields.
"We have evolved into a more thought-based workforce, so it is imperative that society maintain a highly-educated population," said Brenner. "This is the central fact of well-being and life expectancy."
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http://news.yale.edu/2002/05/23/rising-unemployment-causes-higher-death-rates-new-study-yale-researcher-shows
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