Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com the circumstance is an economic crisis [1]. The last economic crisis of 2007-8 has spurred interest in understanding purported health effects of an economic crisis. A group under the auspices of Ralph Catalano warns that although undesirable job and financial experiences increase the risk of psychological and behavioural disorders, many other suspec...

This paper examines the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile. We find that employment in manufacturing plants has been drastically reduced during the economic crisis. Our findings reveal that multinationals are more likely to exit contributing to ...

BACKGROUND The global financial and economic crisis starting in 2007 led to a deterioration of several socio-economic determinants of mental health. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the impact of the present economic crisis on the depression and anxiety levels of the employed in the private and public sector in Slovenia. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Altogether 1592 employees compl...

Economic Review 21 ew economic events succeed in capturing the sustained attention of both economic practitioners—policymakers, business economists, and press commentators—and academic economists. The ongoing economic crisis in Mexico is one of those events. Since the crisis broke out in December 1994, it has been the subject of innumerable newspaper and magazine articles as well as a large num...

Policy makers rely on a mix of government spending and tax cuts to address the imbalances in the economy during an economic crisis, by promoting price stability and renewed economic growth. However, little discussion appears to focus explicitly on quantifying the cost of economic crises in terms of human lives, especially the lives of the most vulnerable members of society, infants. Using a sta...

From 2007, a subprime storm began to blows from the US, and sweep across the whole world with a rapid speed. It makes the world economic growth slow -down, even Iceland and a fraction of the world’s countries fall into bankrupt. Behind this, the dollar hegemony of which the United States has been proud is exactly the main reason. Actually, the appreciation of RMB and the interest rates raised b...

In spite of large number of financial crises, often depicted as episodes of financial panic, the notion of panic in financial markets is not very well understood. Many have argued that in order to understand financial crises, and in particular panic events, we need to go beyond classic economic arguments. This paper is an effort in that direction, in which we attempt to give a psychological acc...

The much publicized Asian economic “crisis,” which began with the collapse of the Thai baht in July 1997, is over! Instead of a situation that was initially and properly characterized as a “crisis”—to which some observers implausibly ascribed responsibility for triggering crises in Russia and Brazil as well—Asia currently displays a wide range of economic performance, problems, and prospects. A...

Algeria’s economic crisis parallels and is an intrinsic part of its political crisis over the past decade. It consists, furthermore, of an interrelated crisis over control of the economic rent and the activities of an informal parallel economy originally based on smuggling and now sustained through violence which is legitimised by Islamist rhetoric. Economic reform, therefore, cannot be meaning...

BACKGROUND Economic recession affects quality of life by increasing rates of mental disorders in particular. Social support can be an important protective factor. AIM To estimate the impact of being personally affected by an economic crisis on health-related quality of life (HRQoL), taking into account the possible buffering effect of perceived social support. DESIGN AND SETTING Data from t...