The effects of the financial crisis on primary prevention of cancer

Martín-Moreno, José M.; Jl, Alfonso Sánchez; Harris, Meggan; López-Valcarcel, Beatríz González

doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2010.07.048

Cited by 26 publications

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“…Notably, also the household survey from the Preventive Medicine 52 (2011) 182-183 To our knowledge, only another study, from the USA, analyzed the effect of economic crisis on smoking prevalence (Ruhm, 2005), providing findings in apparent contrast with ours (Ruhm, 2005). That study, using data from the Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) on almost 1.5 million subjects interviewed between 1987 and 2000, showed that smoking slightly declined during temporary economic downturns (Ruhm, 2005;Martin-Moreno et al, 2010). However, in that study, the direct association observed between employment rate and smoking prevalence was mainly due to an apparent increase in smoking prevalence between 1995 and 1996, which can be partly or largely attributed to a change in survey questions in 1996 (CDC, 1996).…”

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“…This is even more important following the worldwide financial crisis, that started in 2008 and spread at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 in Italy, since the economic crisis could modify smoking habits (Ruhm, 2005;Martin-Moreno et al, 2010). In Italy, unemployment rate increased from 6.7% in March-April 2008 to 7.9% in March-April 2009 and the Italian stock exchange index showed its lowest value during the first 4 months of 2009.…”

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Smoking in Italy 2008–2009: A rise in prevalence related to the economic crisis?

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Tramacere

Pacifici

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Preventive Medicine

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Smoking in Italy 2008–2009: A rise in prevalence related to the economic crisis?

Gallus

Tramacere

Pacifici

et al. 2011

Preventive Medicine

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“…The effect of the business cycle on health using aggregate measures is treated in Brenner (1973Brenner ( , 1975Brenner ( , 1979 as well as in Ruhm (2000). The impact of recessions on physical health is studied for example in Arinaminpathy and Dye (2010) in the case of tuberculosis and in Martin-Moreno et al (2010) for cancer. In short, the literature appears to point in the expected direction: unemployment and slow business cycles lead to increased malaise, although there may be a short-term reverse effect in both directions.…”

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Health and well-being in the great recession

Askitas

Zimmermann

2015

International Journal of Manpower

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which the authors can use internet search data in order to capture the impact of the 2008 Financial and Economic Crisis on well-being. Design/methodology/approach -The authors look at the G8 countries with a special focus on USA and Germany and investigate whether internet searches reflect the "malaise" caused by the crisis. The authors focus on searches that contain the word "symptoms" and are thought to proxy self-diagnosis and those that contain "side effects" and are thought to proxy treatment. Findings -The authors find that "malaise" searches spike in a fashion coincident with the crisis and its contagion timeline across the G8 countries. The authors show that results based on search recover previously known stylized facts from the economics of health, well-being and the business cycle. Research limitations/implications -Internet penetration is high across the G8 countries. The authors nonetheless cannot get a good handle on the part of the population, which is not online. Moreover the authors cannot get a good grip on all confounding factors. More research would be necessary with access to search microdata. Originality/value -The authors propose global proxies for diagnosis and treatment based on the "search buzz" for symptoms and side effects. The authors can thus capture trends on a global scale. This approach will become increasingly important.

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“…Budgetary limitations derived from the economic crisis is pushing western nations to modify their recommendation; some countries like Ireland have cut vaccination programs entirely, while others have stepped up negotiations for lower prices. 22 The strengths of our study include its large, population-based representative sample and our ability to control for important covariates such as age, sex and chronic conditions, which were collected identically throughout the study period.…”

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confidence: 99%