Working and hurting? : monitoring the health and health inequalities impacts of the economic downturn and changes to the social security system
Year: 2018
Type: other
Abstract: Key findingsChanges to the economy and to measures of social protection designed to mitigate against the adverse impacts of low income, unemployment, low wages, and ill health and disability can have a big impact on the health of the population.This is especially true for working-age adults and their children who rely on social security to provide sufficient income to live and maintain their health and wellbeing.This is the third report in a series looking at developments in income, employment and social security alongside trends in health and health inequalities in Scotland.Since the last report, Pulling in different directions?(2016), there has been positive change in a number of economic indicators associated with population health and health inequalities.These include:• fewer children and working-age adults living in workless households• falling levels of involuntary part-time and temporary employment• reduced perceived financial insecurity • a reduction in the absolute and relative number of people sanctioned. Out-of-work benefits Indicators• Working-age adults claiming key out-of-work benefits. Main data source(s)• Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) 100% work and pensions longitudinal survey and 5% sample; historic data from DWP and Hansard. Out-of-work benefits Indicators• Working-age adults claiming unemployment benefits. Main data source(s)• ONS claimant count. Out-of-work benefits Indicators• Claimant unemployed per 100 International Labour Organisation (ILO) unemployed per year, working-age adults. Main data source(s)• Labour Force Survey• ONS claimant count. Out-of-work benefits Indicators• Claimant unemployed per 100 ILO unemployed per year, young adults not in full-time education. Main data source(s)• Annual Population Survey.• ONS claimant count and JSA data sets. Health domains Cardiovascular illness Indicators• Hospitalisations due to heart attacks and coronary heart disease among working-age adults. Main data source(s)• ISD, NHS National Services Scotland. Cardiovascular illness Indicators• Working-age mortality from ischemic heart disease.
Authors: Taubut, Martin, Agbato, Damilola, McCartney, Gerry
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2973562434