the european :union: with 28 member states is one of the largest economic :union:s in the world, however, the economic and financial crisis of recent years preceded by the housing crisis of 2008 in the us created many difficulties for it, and affected some of its member states, such as ireland, portugal, italy, spain and particularly greece. the counties’ huge amount of debt and the doubt about...

The economic and social crisis that the European population has experienced since 2008 has fuelled interest in the study of its potential health impacts, especially when it comes to the more vulnerable southern countries like Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain [1,2]. With regard to public health, and particularly social epidemiology, the need to deal with the problem of the economic crisis encou...

Progress towards the MDGs is expected to slow as a consequence of the global economic downturn. Th is study applies an economy-wide framework to analyze the impact of the crisis on MDG achievement in six Latin American countries. It fi nds signifi cant setbacks towards the goals and, in the case of the region’s low-income countries, the cost of achieving these would rise between 1.6 and 3.4 per...

This paper investigates empirically the main determinants of firm competitiveness under conditions of economic turmoil, with the use of panel data techniques. The study is based on firm-level financial data of 693 firms from the high and medium technology manufacturing sectors in Greece, and covers the time period 1996-2011, distinguishing between the pre-crisis (1996-2007) and the post-crisis ...

Deep downturns • The world has been plagued by episodic deep downturns • 2008 crisis most recent • In spite of alleged " better " knowledge of economic system, and belief among many that we had put economic fluctuations behind us • Evidence is belief in those models may have contributed to crisis • Ideas about Great Moderation, ability of economy through diversification to effectively eliminate...

Since the early 1990's, Zimbabwe has been enmeshed in a major economic crisis that has seriously eroded the status of women in that country. For the past three years, the economic crisis has been joined by a political crisis which marks the first major challenge to the Mugabe regime since independence. In addition to the very harsh toll that the economic and political problems have had on poor ...

The economic depression of the 1930s represented the most important economic and social crisis of its time. Surprisingly, its effect on health did not show in available morbidity and mortality rates. In 1932, the League of Nations Health Organisation embarked on a six-point program addressing statistical methods of measuring the effect and its influence on mental health and nutrition and establ...

In 2008 a deep economic crisis started in the US and rapidly spread around the world. The crisis severely affected the labor market and employees' well-being. Hence, the aim of this work is to implement a systematic review of the principal studies that analyze the impact of the economic crisis on the health of workers. We conducted our search on the PubMed database, and a total of 19 articles w...