This article conceptualises home cook Jack Monroe as an ‘austerity celebrity’, a mediated figure who forged her public persona directly through articulations with austerity culture. Drawing on intertextual analysis of blogs, cookbooks, interviews, speeches and representations across the media, I argue that demonstrates paradox anti-austerity celebrity in becoming economically successful face mo...

INTRODUCTION The objectives of the study were to explore the effect of the economic crisis on child health using Spain as a case study, and to document and assess the policies implemented in response to the crisis in this context. METHODS Serial cross-sectional data from Eurostat, the Spanish Health Interview Survey, and the database of childhood hospitalisation were analysed to explore impac...

Since the financial crisis erupted in 2008, the governments of Portugal, Ireland, Italy Greece and Spain (GIPSI) find themselves in a position where financing their debts has become increasingly difficult. As a result, these governments reduced government expenditure and/or increased taxes in order to reduce their deficits. Hence, whilst other countries in the Eurozone – notably Germany enjoy a...

BACKGROUND The recent economic crisis has been a major shock not only to the economic sector, but also to the rest of society. Our main objective in this paper is to show the impact of the economic crisis on convergence, i.e. the reduction or equalising of disparities, among the EU-27 countries in terms of health. The aim is to observe whether the economic crisis (from 2008 onwards) has in fact...

Correspondence P. Rossi Rua Lauro Pimentel 914, Campinas, SP 13083-250, Brasil. [email protected] The New Fiscal Regime proposal put forward by the Temer administration proposes a rule for primary Federal Government expenditures for the next 20 years, alterable – restricted to the correction factor – in 10 years. This proposal was approved as Constitutional Amendment Proposition 241/2016 (P...

In her foreword to the World Health Organization booklet, Impact of Economic Crises on Mental Health [6] , the World Health Organization regional director for Europe, Zsuzsanna Jakab, notes that the present economic crisis has led to a significant decline in economic activity, a rise in unemployment, depressed housing markets and an increased number of people living in poverty. This impact is c...

BACKGROUND Greece has been severely affected by the 2008 global economic crisis and its health system was, and still is, among the national institutions most shaped by its effects. METHODS In 2014, this qualitative study examined these changes through in-depth interviews with 22 frontline healthcare professionals in five different locations in mainland Greece. These interviews with nurses, do...

Abstract Fiscal sustainability issues over rising national debt concerns and the consequent expansionary fiscal retrenchment hypothesis has fuelled contentious austerity vis-à-vis stimulus debate which spawned a large empirical literature of conflicting findings on economic effects – with particular emphasis revolving around equity distributional issues. In this paper we attempt to summarise gr...