Crises and Population Health

Health Crises and Cohort Mortality

Two sorts of relationships can exist between trends in a population’s health and trends in the mortality of successive birth cohorts. Firstly, in a period of long-term health improvements, the different cohorts see gradual benefi ts from this progress; but each new cohort benefi ts from it more, since it enjoys it sooner and therefore for a longer part of its life. This results from a general d...

Financial Crises and Political Crises∗

The simultaneous determination of financial default and political crises is studied in an open economy model. Political crises accompany default in equilibrium because of an information transmission conflict between the government and the public. Multiple equilibria are possible: if foreign lenders are pessimistic about the country’s stability, they demand a high interest on the debt, exacerbat...

Effects of economic crises on population health outcomes in Latin America, 1981–2010: an ecological study

OBJECTIVES The relative health effects of changes in unemployment, inflation and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita on population health have not been assessed. We aimed to determine the effect of changes in these economic measures on mortality metrics across Latin America. DESIGN Ecological study. SETTING Latin America (21 countries), 1981-2010. OUTCOME MEASURES Uses multivariate re...

Global health response to crises needs reform.

The health consequences of economic crises

This journal is dedicated to researching and publishing on emerging threats to human health. The subject areas vary from the threats to a small group, such as Iranian veterans exposed to sulphur mustard, through to threats on a regional or global basis. One of the key evolving threats is the current global economic crisis. In October 2008, the world finally realised that the credit crisis, whic...