jmc stress summit

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About LARIA

How stressed are we in the

North East?

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Stress-related outcomes

• Working days lost due to stress (Labour

Force Survey, 2011-2015)

• Anxiety (Annual Population Survey

2013/14)

• Hospital admissions due to stress or

anxiety (HSCIC, 2012)

• Psychosocial health (Understanding

Society Survey, 2015)

How happy are we first?

Source: April 2013 to March 2014, Annual Population Survey Personal Well-being dataset, ONS

Happiness

breakdown by LAData Source: Measuring Wellbeing Survey, 2013

Anxiety

Source: April 2013 to March 2014, Annual Population Survey Personal Well-being dataset, ONS

General Health Questionnaire (GHQ)

Source: April 2013 to March 2014, Annual Population Survey Personal Well-being dataset, ONS

Mechanisms through which stress

affect health • Mental symptoms of stress range from sleeplessness and listlessness

through to clinical depression and suicide

• Physical effects range from appetite loss and nausea through to heart

damage and stroke

• Mental health problems like stress, anxiety and depression caused or

made worse by work results in:

- Sickness absence (£13B)

- Lost productivity

Societal consequences

Working days lost due to stress

Summary

• Stress and related conditions (e.g. anxiety) are

unequally distributed in England, both between

and within regions

• Disproportionately higher levels of stress in the

North East

• Important to consider the psycho-social

perspective in relation to health inequalities

Do you want to join us? Join now (you can do it online

via www.laria.org.uk) j.m.cairns@durham.ac.uk

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LARIA Council and

help set the agenda

for the work we do?

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organisation that

could work more with

LARIA?

Thanks for listening! Questions?