was characterized by a larger increase in the unemployment rate than in previous post-WWII recessions and an atypically slow recovery(U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dec 2010).
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Estimated reductions in cardiovascular disease mortality contributed 60% of the overall effect and were more pronounced among women. Our finding that all-cause mortality decreased during the Great Recession is consistent with previous studies. We identify a plausibly causal effect by isolating the impacts of within-metropolitan area changes in unemployment rates and controlling for common temporal trends.
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The Great Recession that began in 2007 appears to have taken more than a financial toll. History at your fingertips
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After decades of decline, the rate of deaths from heart disease and stroke has plateaued in recent years, and is actually rising in some populations.
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According to one study, during the first two years after the official end of the recession, from 2009 to 2011, the As the financial crisis spread from the United States to other countries, particularly in western Age- and gender-specific suicide trends before the recession demonstrated clear seasonal and nonlinear trajectories.
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Researchers are scrambling to decipher lessons before the next big recession. Great Recession, economic recession that was precipitated in the U.S. by the financial crisis of 2007–08 and quickly spread to other countries. Death rates have dropped during past economic downturns, even as many health trends have worsened.
Effects on mortality by age, gender and cause of deathScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. The 2007–2009 Great Recession in the U.S(Business Cycle Dating Committee, Sept 20 2010). economy officially slipped into recession, spurred particularly by the decline in the housing market and the subprime mortgage crisis and worsened by the collapse of the global financial services firm Lehman Brothers in September 2008. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. (The U.S. economic meltdown hastened in the midst of the 2008 presidential election, and…
Motor vehicle accident mortality declined with unemployment increases, especially for men and those under age 65, as did legal intervention and homicide mortality, particularly for men and adults ages 25–64. ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V.Did the Great Recession affect mortality rates in the metropolitan United States? We aggregated vital statistics, population, and unemployment data at the area-month-year-age-gender-race level, yielding 527,040 observations across 366 metropolitan areas, 2005–2010.We estimate that a one percentage point increase in the metropolitan area unemployment rate was associated with a decrease in all-cause mortality of 3.95 deaths per 100,000 person years (95%CI −6.80 to −1.10), or 0.5%.
Our models predicted 57,140 expected suicide deaths, leading to 482 fewer observed than expected suicides (95% confidence interval -2079, 943).
Lasting from late 2007 until mid-2009, it was the longest and deepest economic downturn in many countries, including the U.S., since the Great … We find suggestive evidence that increases in metropolitan area unemployment increased accidental drug poisoning deaths for both men and women ages 25–64.Our finding that all-cause mortality decreased during the Great Recession is consistent with previous studies.
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