Descripción del proyecto
Cómo afecta perder el empleo a la familia
El desempleo afecta de manera negativa a la salud mental y física de la persona que lo sufre. Pero ¿y a su familia? En el proyecto HEALFAM, financiado con fondos europeos, se examinan los efectos del desempleo en la salud de las familias. En concreto, se investiga la repercusión de la pérdida de empleo en la salud de las parejas, los hijos y los padres mayores de los desempleados. El objetivo de HEALFAM es abrir una nueva línea de investigación sobre la salud y el bienestar desde la perspectiva del curso de vida, con datos longitudinales que proporcionen información sobre diferentes miembros de familias en sociedades distintas. En lugar de examinar a los desempleados de forma aislada, en HEALFAM se evalúa las consecuencias del desempleo para los miembros de la familia, mediante una perspectiva multilateral y un enfoque comparativo internacional.
Objetivo
Previous research has investigated the relationship between unemployment and health from a perspective of an isolated individual. HEALFAM takes a novel approach and examines how transition to unemployment triggers diffusion of ill mental and physical health within families. It investigates how becoming unemployed affects health outcomes of partners, children and elderly parents of the unemployed and whether the magnitudes of these influences differ across families and societies. Thus, instead of viewing the unemployed as functioning in isolation, HEALFAM assesses the consequences of unemployment for family members taking a multi-actor perspective and international comparative approach.
Guided by the life course theoretical framework, which views health and well-being as a process rather than a state and calls for considering interrelatedness of individuals, HEALFAM employs longitudinal data that provide information about multiple members of families. In order to analyse these datasets, HEALFAM uses longitudinal dyadic data analysis techniques as well as multilevel models for longitudinal data.
HEALFAM aims to open a new frontline of research on health and wellbeing from a life course perspective. It benefits from my knowledge on three interrelated social phenomena: (1) the role of labour market career and experiences of unemployment (2) family structure and intra-family resources (3) social antecedents of health and wellbeing among family members. It draws on high quality register and panel survey data as well as the expertise at the interdisciplinary research centres that I am connected to at Umeå University. Through international collaborations, it brings together experts in multiple disciplines carrying out research taking a life course perspective.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Régimen de financiación
ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
901 87 Umea
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