American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on March 22, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 163(10):888-890; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj120
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Invited Commentary: Tapping the Tip of the Iceberg
1 Department of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine, Mannheim Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
2 Division of Health Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Correspondence to Dr. Joachim E. Fischer, Department of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine, Mannheim Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1–3, D-68167 Mannheim, Germany (e-mail: fischer@healthvision.ch).
Received for publication November 29, 2005. Accepted for publication January 26, 2006.
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Recently, General Motors announced the slashing of 30,000 jobs in North America. The move will incur savings to the ailing carmaker of $7 billion a year (1
). In 2004, Daimler-Chrysler agreed to a pay-freeze in exchange for job security in Germany. This year, the company announced it will lay off 8,500 workers in the very heartland of Mercedes-Benz around Stuttgart. Two days after the announcement by General Motors, the bankrupt car parts maker Delphi had to defer a $488 million executive bonus plan following a storm of criticism by unions and shareholders (2). Aren't these times to become depressed?
Thus, why wonder that Rugulies et al. (3) in this issue report on a twofold increased risk for depressive symptoms in Danish men experiencing job insecurity and in women with low influence at work or low supervisor support? However, in the case of the study by Rugulies et
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