Unemployed at Risk

Research into suicide conducted by the Wellington School of Medicine has been published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health and reported on around the world. The findings – based on the NZ population for three years after the 1991 census – show that unemployed men and women are up to three times more likely to commit suicide than those with jobs. The link stayed true even after other risk factors, such as education, marital status, income and mental illness, were taken into account.