Economic stability and health status: Evidence from East Asia before and after the 1990s economic crisis

Hopkins, Sandra

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2005.04.002

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“…Using a schematic analogous to one developed with respect to globalization and HIV infection, described in the first article of this series [142], Hopkins [143] cites research showing that reductions in household income as a result of financial crises in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia during the late 1990s led to reduced food intake, health care utilization and education expenditure. Indicative of the potential health effects is a Korean national survey that found substantial increases in morbidity, and decreases in health service utilization, following the 1997 currency crisis [144].…”

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Globalization and social determinants of health: The role of the global marketplace (part 2 of 3)

Labonté

Schrecker

2007

Global Health

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Globalization is a key context for the study of social determinants of health (SDH): broadly stated, SDH are the conditions in which people live and work, and that affect their opportunities to lead healthy lives.In the first article in this three part series, we described the origins of the series in work conducted for the Globalization Knowledge Network of the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health and in the Commission's specific concern with health equity. We identified and defended a definition of globalization that gives primacy to the drivers and effects of transnational economic integration, and addressed a number of important conceptual and methodological issues in studying globalization's effects on SDH and their distribution, emphasizing the need for transdisciplinary approaches that reflect the complexity of the topic.In this second article, we identify and describe several, often interacting clusters of pathways leading from globalization to changes in SDH that are relevant to health equity. These involve: trade liberalization; the global reorganization of production and labour markets; debt crises and economic restructuring; financial liberalization; urban settings; influences that operate by way of the physical environment; and health systems changed by the global marketplace.

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Globalization and social determinants of health: The role of the global marketplace (part 2 of 3)

Labonté

Schrecker

2007

Global Health

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“…Malaysia detached itself from the common-sense association of unemployment and suicide rates when it ignored the advice of the international financial community to reduce spending on social protection. 15 Closer to the UK, suicide rates in Sweden and Finland decreased despite substantial increases in unemployment rates. 16 This may be attributed to the Nordic social welfare model which produces high social protection and labour market programmes, 17 as well as national suicide prevention activities.…”

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The global economic crisis: effects on mental health and what can be done

Agius

Zaman

2013

J R Soc Med

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“…The population health effects of the Asian crisis is perhaps the one best documented in developing countries (Simms and Rowson 2003, Vollard et al 2004, Hartini et al 2005, Khang et al 2005, Hopkins 2006, Khang and Lynch 2010. The health consequences, varied across nations, but included increases in suicides, infectious disease and other morbidity, undernutrition, and infant mortality (with some positive effects, such as declining 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 traffic accidents).…”

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The global financial crisis: whither women's health?

Mohindra

Labonté

Spitzer

2011

Critical Public Health

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The global integration of trade and financial markets that has been the hallmark of the past 30 years of neoliberal globalization means that local economies can be shaped by economic events seemingly unrelated to the scale or geography where women's empowerment projects unfold. These global-local interactions raise questions so far largely absent in public discussions of the 2008 crisis precipitated by the US sub-prime loan scandal: what are the gendered effects of global financial crises; specifically, how do these crises affect women? And how do these market crises intersect with the non-market activities that are key to understanding gendered health issues in developing countries. This article addresses these questions by reviewing the literature on gendered health impacts of financial crises over the past two decades. We find that the manner in which national governments and the broader international community react to crises can either magnify (as illustrated through the impacts of structural adjustment programmes on women's health) or mitigate (as illustrated through the policies pursued following the loss of support from the collapsed Soviet Union on Cuban women's health) gendered health-negative effects. Lack of attention to gender-specific consequences of past crises or health-positive interventions into such crises has weakened the ability to advance policy advice on protecting women's health during the present crisis. The article concludes with a gender-focused critique of the dominant policy responses to the 2008 financial crisis and a call to undertake real-time investigation of gendered health risks and opportunities arising from the present crisis.

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Economic stability and health status: Evidence from East Asia before and after the 1990s economic crisis

Cited by 74 publications

References 11 publications

Globalization and social determinants of health: The role of the global marketplace (part 2 of 3)

Globalization and social determinants of health: The role of the global marketplace (part 2 of 3)

The global economic crisis: effects on mental health and what can be done

The global financial crisis: whither women's health?

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