I have read the document, so apologies if this is covered. The impact of losing employment is perhaps more complex.
Health may be impacted when the closure and redundancy is associated with a major employer and there is little opportunity for other employment - such was the case in the 1980s when heavy industry and manufacturing, which was the employment in many places, was decimated. Whole communities were adversely affected and a collective self confidence was negatively impacted.
Lack of opportunity, lack.of comparable work ( not just income but skill level and status) is a slow insidious drip that has had a generational effect. There is not only financial poverty, but a poverty of ambition, a distinct lack of self belief. Our firm offers work experience for a week for 16 year olds and there have been a couple who have grown up in families where noone gets up in the morning to go to work and who have no confidence that their children will have a better fate.
In these circumstances i can understand the impact on health, both mental health and also the impact of poor diet and environment.
Locally, there is a walled garden on a small estate which took 40 years to build in the eighteenth/ nineteenth century. It provided employment for miners between seams being developed and kept the local community largely intact . It is hailed as an act of philanthropy by the local estate owner - perhaps also a sound business decision ( he no doubt was a significant shareholder in local mining companies) , as it kept a skilled workforce from going elsewhere and imbued a sense of loyalty and community.
If we look back at the true costs of the great neoliberal experiment of the latter twentieth century pethaps we could learn a thing or two. Even Michael Heseltine had second thoughts after witnessing the impact on Liverpool and called for significant regeneration. Unfortunately, politics in Liverpool precluded central intervention on any significant scale .
