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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