Monday, March 6, 2017

Economic growth and mortality: do social protection policies matter?

Since the Depression of the 1930’s there has been an interest in the impact of economic cycles on health.  While much of the news related to the recent economic downturn has focused on the depression and related illnesses that accompany job loss, it has been shown repeatedly that the health of the population improves during economic slowdown, and worsens with period of growth.  

Together with a team from Johns Hopkins and several other institutions, investigators at Loyola were involved in an analysis of recent trends in the main industrialized countries to identify factors that might modify this cyclic pattern.   Not unexpectedly, countries that provide social support systems have a much smaller amplitude of change in death rates.  These analyses were published last week and the full paper can be found here.  

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