| 来源类型 | Publication
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| Health, Economic Crisis, and Austerity: A Comparison of Greece, Finland, and Iceland |
| José; A. Tapia Granados; Javier M. Rodriguez
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| 发表日期 | 2015-07-30
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| 出版者 | Health Policy, vol. 119, no. 7 (subscription required)
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| 出版年 | 2015
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 概述 | Reports have attributed a public health tragedy in Greece to the Great Recession and the subsequent application of austerity programs.", |
| 摘要 |
Key Findings:
- There are conflicting reports on the health effects of the Great Recession.
- Some authors have claimed that a health tragedy is developing in Greece.
- It is also claimed that Finland and Iceland have avoided that tragedy.
- Data show however that Greece has not evolved worse than the others.
- Life expectancy and vaccination rates had indeed evolved better in Greece.
Reports have attributed a public health tragedy in Greece to the Great Recession and the subsequent application of austerity programs. It is also claimed that the comparison of Greece with Iceland and Finland—where austerity policies were not applied—reveals the harmful effect of austerity on health and that by protecting spending in health and social budgets, governments can offset the harmful effects of economic crises on health. We use data on life expectancy, mortality rates, incidence of infectious diseases, rates of vaccination, self-reported health and other measures to examine the evolution of population health and health services performance in Greece, Finland and Iceland since 1990–2011 or 2012—the most recent years for which data are available. We find that in the three countries most indicators of population health continued improving after the Great Recession started. In terms of population health and performance of the health care system, in the period after 2007 for which data are available, Greece did as good as Iceland and Finland. The evidence does not support the claim that there is a health crisis in Greece. On the basis of the extant evidence, claims of a public health tragedy in Greece seem overly exaggerated. |
| URL | https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/health-economic-crisis-and-austerity-a-comparison-of-greece-finland-and-iceland
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| 来源智库 | Mathematica Policy Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/488190
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José,A. Tapia Granados,Javier M. Rodriguez. Health, Economic Crisis, and Austerity: A Comparison of Greece, Finland, and Iceland. 2015.
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