IMF-lending programs and suicide mortality

Goulas, Eleftherios; Zervoyianni, Athina

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.01.045

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“…These cultural and social-psychological effects are linked to a range of health outcomes. For instance, mass privatizations and employment protection liberalization increase psychosocial stress, which can have adverse mental health consequences and risky behavior (Antonakakis and Collins, 2014;Goulas and Zervoyianni, 2016;Kentikelenis, 2017;Stuckler and Basu, 2013). However, structural adjustment policies can also elicit cultural responses that contribute to 'resilience' in the face of rapid socioeconomic change (Hall and Lamont, 2013).…”

Section: Effects On Social Determinants Of Healthmentioning

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Structural adjustment and health: A conceptual framework and evidence on pathways

Kentikelenis

2017

Social Science & Medicine

106

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Economic reform programs designed by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank-so-called 'structural adjustment programs'-have formed one of the most influential policy agendas of the past four decades. To gain access to financial support from these organizations, countries-often in economic crisis-have reduced public spending, limited the role of the state, and deregulated economic activity. This article identifies the multiple components of structural adjustment, and presents a conceptual framework linking them to health systems and outcomes. Based on a comprehensive review of the academic literature, the article identifies three main pathways through which structural adjustment affects health: policies directly targeting health systems; policies indirectly impacting health systems; and policies affecting the social determinants of health. The cogency of the framework is illustrated by revisiting Greece's recent experience with structural adjustment, drawing on original IMF reports and secondary literature. Overall, the framework offers a lens through which to analyze the health consequences of structural adjustment across time, space and levels of socioeconomic development, and can be utilized in ex ante health impact assessments of these policies.

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Section: Effects On Social Determinants Of Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Structural adjustment and health: A conceptual framework and evidence on pathways

Kentikelenis

2017

Social Science & Medicine

106

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“…Оценка влияния долговых обязательств проводится на данных по индивидам, по регионам или даже странам. Например, в работе (Goulas, Zervoyianni, 2016) с помощью метода system-GMM исследуется влияние кредитования МВФ на смертность от самоубийств с использованием данных по 30 развивающимся странам и странам с переходной экономикой, которые получили нельготные ссуды МВФ в течение 1991-2008 гг. Результаты авторов подтверждают гипотезу о положительной причинно-следственной связи между смертностью от самоубийств и участием в программах МВФ, однако это влияние имело лишь краткосрочный характер.…”

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“…Данный подход разработан для панелей с малым количеством лет наблюдения и большим числом объ-ПЭ № 4 2021 ектов наблюдения, что характерно для набора данных по регионам России, используемых в работе. Данный метод часто применяется в исследовательских работах, оценивающих влияние различных детерминант на число самоубийств (Goulas, Zervoyianni, 2016;Antonakakis, Collins, 2015).…”

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The Impact of Debt Burden on the Number of Suicides in the Russian Regions

Дорошенко¹,

Sanaeva²

2021

Spatial Economics

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Population size is one of the most important parameters of national social and economic systems. This parameter is controlled by a variety of factors (components) that form ambiguous and complex feedback circuits. The most important issue is the study of the behavioral reactions of the population, which form certain parameters of the dynamics of the population. The authors consider only one behavioral reaction that seems to them to be important – the propensity for suicide, which ultimately leads to the formation of the suicide dynamics and which entails serious socio-economic and demographic losses. We put an emphasis on assessing the impact of financial parameters, namely households’ debt burden, on the suicide rates in the Russian regions. An econometric assessment of the influence of individual debt on the number of suicides among other socio-economic factors (unemployment rate, logarithm of GRP per capita, divorce rate, number of patients with mental disorders, average actual working week, number of alcoholics) was carried out for the regions among rural, urban populations and total. We use panel data for 80 Russian regions covering the period from 2005 to 2018. We apply the generalized method of moments (GMM) using Stata 14 statistical package. The empirical analysis demonstrates negative impact of the amount of individual debt on the number of suicides in the regions of Russia, which contradicts the results of similar studies conducted for developed economies. At the same time, some results obtained earlier in domestic and foreign studies have been confirmed, including an existence of a parabolic (U-shaped) dependence between the length of working hours and the suicide rates in the regions of the Russian Federation. In addition, there is a direct connection between an increase in the committed suicides and an increase in divorce rates and the number of patients with mental disorders. Moreover, we find out that the rise in unemployment rate and alcohol consumption leads to an increase in the number of committed suicides. This effect is especially perceptible among the people living in rural areas

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Depression and grief as a result of economic and financial crises: the example of Greece and some generalizations

Belke

2019

Econ Change Restruct

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IMF-lending programs and suicide mortality

Cited by 6 publications

References 30 publications

Structural adjustment and health: A conceptual framework and evidence on pathways

Structural adjustment and health: A conceptual framework and evidence on pathways

The Impact of Debt Burden on the Number of Suicides in the Russian Regions

Depression and grief as a result of economic and financial crises: the example of Greece and some generalizations

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