It is quite important to save your job throughout unemployment period not only due to financial reasons. According to researchers the loss of job may cause a considerable harm of the health.

The experts of the Harvard Public Health school (USA) report that even in case there is a possibility to get new job the risk of new medical troubles (including hypertension, heart disorders, diabetes, infarction and cerebrovascular accident) appearing is quite high. It was revealed previously that the possibility of demotion or discharge worsens the bad state of health by 40%. Now the experts have concluded that the discharge may turn into the chronic diagnosis development in the future for healthy people.

The research was carried out among the managers and specialists in the sales, book-keeping and service sector. According to this research the risk of the bad state of the health increased up to 54% in case the discharge was caused by exterior circumstances like bankruptcy or reduction of the staff and not by the certain private reasons. Furthermore those people had no health problems previously experience worse health condition. Their state of the health worsens by 83%.

According to the medics the discharge may cause long-lasting negative effect as the new job will not provide any protection against constantly high risk of the new stress and chronic diseases development.