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Employability and Health & Wellbeing Neil Anand and Emma Hogg NHS Health Scotland
Employability and Health & Wellbeing
Neil Anand and Emma HoggNHS Health Scotland
Key points• Terminology• Existing evidence• The Adoption model• The Current scenario• Evidence of what might work• Conclusions
Key terms
• Employment
• Employability
• Good health
Existing Evidence• Suggests of a strong link between
unemployment and poor physical and mental health.– For YP, it strongly points to the adverse effects on
mental health & psychological wellbeing.– Mixed or inconclusive regarding physical health and
health behaviours.– Being disadvantaged makes a YP more vulnerable to
adverse health effects.
• Suggests of a strong spiral association between poor heath and worklessness.– For YP, this evidence is not direct and explicit, but
could be extrapolated.
Personal Circumstances
Individual factors
Wider determinants
Social Determinants
Health of a young person
Personal circumstances
Individual factors
Wider determinants
Social determinants
Employment
Unemployment
Employability potential
Health of a young person
Positive effect Negative effect
Adoption Model
The Current Scenario
Other policy documents with limited health reference:Scotland’s Skills strategy and Career Information, Advise and Guidance Framework.
Practice with limited health discourse:Activity Agreement, My World of Work, DWP Work Programmes and Employability fund contracts.
Personal circumstances
Individual factors
Wider determinants
Social determinants
Employment
Unemployment
Employability potential
Health of a young person
Positive effect Negative effect
Adoption Model
The Current Scenario
Evidence on what might work…
Sustain/Improve Employability OR Sustain/Improve
Health
• • Provide intensive personalized employability support
that incudes health as an important component. • Provide tailored practical support to address personal
circumstances.• Move towards targeted economic regeneration• Improve matching to labour market opportunities.
GOODGetting YP a job!
Conclusions
• Efforts need to happen at all levels to achieve sustainable employability/employment related outcomes.
• Health component (especially, mental wellbeing) needs to built-into personalized employability programs.
• Cross agency/department partnership needs to be stronger and more proactive to fill the gaps.
References and further readingBrenninkmeijer, V; Blonk, R. (2012). The effectiveness of the JOBS program among the long-term unemployed: a randomized experiment in the Netherlands. Health Promotion International, 27 (2), 220-9.
Brown J., Demou E., Tristram M.A., Gilmour H., Sanati, K.A. and Macdonald, E.B. (2012) Employment status and health: understanding the health of the economically inactive population in Scotland. BMC Public Health, 12, 327.
Reynolds, C; Barry, M; Gabhainn, S. (2010): Evaluating the Impact of the Winning New Jobs Programme on the Re-employment and Mental Health of a Mixed Profile of Unemployed People. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 12 (2), 32-41.
Roelfs D.J., Shor E., Davidson K.W. and Schwartz J.E. (2011) Losing life and livelihood: A systematic review and meta-analysis of unemployment and all-cause mortality. Social Science & Medicine, 72(6), 840–854.
Taulbut M. and McCartney G. (2013) The chance to work in Scotland. Edinburgh: NHS Health Scotland.
Vuori, J. and Silvonen, J. (2005), The benefits of a preventive job search program on re-employment and mental health at 2-year follow-up. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 78, 43–52.
NREPP JOBS Program http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/ViewIntervention.aspx?id=170
