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The Great Recession, financial strain and self-assessed health in Ireland
In this paper, we study the effects of the 2008 economic crisis on general health in one of the most severely affected EU economies—Ireland. We examine the relationship between compositional changes in demographic and socio-economic factors, such as education, income, and financial strain, and chang...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6517350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30564918 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-018-1019-6 |
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author | Mazeikaite, Gintare O’Donoghue, Cathal Sologon, Denisa M. |
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description | In this paper, we study the effects of the 2008 economic crisis on general health in one of the most severely affected EU economies—Ireland. We examine the relationship between compositional changes in demographic and socio-economic factors, such as education, income, and financial strain, and changes in the prevalence of poor self-assessed health over a 5-year period (2008–2013). We apply a generalised Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach for non-linear regression models proposed by Fairlie (1999, 2005). Results show that the increased financial strain explained the largest part of the increase in poor health in the Irish population and different sub-groups. Changes in the economic activity status and population structure also had a significant positive effect. The expansion of education had a significant negative effect, preventing further increases in poor health. Wealthier and better educated individuals experienced larger relative increases in poor health, which led to reduced socio-economic health inequalities. |
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spelling | pubmed-65173502019-06-05 The Great Recession, financial strain and self-assessed health in Ireland Mazeikaite, Gintare O’Donoghue, Cathal Sologon, Denisa M. Eur J Health Econ Original Paper In this paper, we study the effects of the 2008 economic crisis on general health in one of the most severely affected EU economies—Ireland. We examine the relationship between compositional changes in demographic and socio-economic factors, such as education, income, and financial strain, and changes in the prevalence of poor self-assessed health over a 5-year period (2008–2013). We apply a generalised Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach for non-linear regression models proposed by Fairlie (1999, 2005). Results show that the increased financial strain explained the largest part of the increase in poor health in the Irish population and different sub-groups. Changes in the economic activity status and population structure also had a significant positive effect. The expansion of education had a significant negative effect, preventing further increases in poor health. Wealthier and better educated individuals experienced larger relative increases in poor health, which led to reduced socio-economic health inequalities. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018-12-19 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6517350/ /pubmed/30564918 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-018-1019-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Mazeikaite, Gintare O’Donoghue, Cathal Sologon, Denisa M. The Great Recession, financial strain and self-assessed health in Ireland |
title | The Great Recession, financial strain and self-assessed health in Ireland |
title_full | The Great Recession, financial strain and self-assessed health in Ireland |
title_fullStr | The Great Recession, financial strain and self-assessed health in Ireland |
title_full_unstemmed | The Great Recession, financial strain and self-assessed health in Ireland |
title_short | The Great Recession, financial strain and self-assessed health in Ireland |
title_sort | great recession, financial strain and self-assessed health in ireland |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6517350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30564918 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-018-1019-6 |
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