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Furthermore, the present study challenges the dominating way of researching and thinking in epidemiology and public health--the way of focusing on rather proximate risk factors for major causes of morbidity and mortality. The present study of Germany after unification highlights the importance of placing these risk factors in a broad social context by showing that national economic and structural changes and the resulting growth in unemployment permeate the health of the population.","abstract_html":"Previous research in sociology and epidemiology has shown strong adverse effects of unemployment on physical and psychological health. However, this research has two major limitations. First, researchers have ignored the effects of potential unemployment--job insecurity--and how its effects may differ from those of actual unemployment. Second, all of the studies have been done in either the U.S. or Western Europe. 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