We have asked Lahelma to start a discussion on unemployment and ill health and scientists working with this problem are herewith invited to contribute. Unemployment should not be medicalized, he argues, but it has a public health dimension irrespective of the causal relation between unemployment and disease. He wants to put greater emphasis on the effects of unemployment on family and society at large.
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