The relationship between recessions and health

Artikel

Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the lack of consistency between different individual- and country-level approaches. However, aggregate regional patterns provide valuable information, and local social planners could use them to design region-specific policy responses to mitigate the negative health effects caused by recessions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2021 ; Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
• Subject: recessions ; unemployment ; mortality ; suicides ; health ; mental health

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Drydakis, Nick
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2021

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.15185/izawol.283.v2
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/260705
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET