2014
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-13-50
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Health-income inequality: the effects of the Icelandic economic collapse

Abstract: IntroductionHealth-income inequality has been the focus of many studies. The relationship between economic conditions and health has also been widely studied. However, not much is known about how changes in aggregate economic conditions relate to health-income inequality. Nevertheless, such knowledge would have both scientific and practical value as substantial public expenditures are used to decrease such inequalities and opportunities to do so may differ over the business cycle. For this reason we examine th… Show more

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“…Several studies have studied health inequalities and economic crises across countries [5,7,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] or national income and gender inequality in health inequalities [3,[18][19][20][21]. However, few studies have addressed the relationship between socio-ecological inequality indicators including GNI, GII, and DCI caused by financial crisis and OLE [5,12,13,15].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Several studies have studied health inequalities and economic crises across countries [5,7,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] or national income and gender inequality in health inequalities [3,[18][19][20][21]. However, few studies have addressed the relationship between socio-ecological inequality indicators including GNI, GII, and DCI caused by financial crisis and OLE [5,12,13,15].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although the effect of business cycles on income-related health inequalities has received much less attention, Ásgeirsdóttir’s and Ragnarsdóttir’s recent study [40] does focus on income-related inequality in health in Iceland using data from 2007 to 2009, a year pre and post the Icelandic economic collapse. Their results indicate pro-rich income-related health inequality and they find that the effects of the crisis substantially differ between males and females.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These rapidly changing economic conditions make the years of 2007–2012 an ideal time period to examine the recession’s effects on income-related health inequality in Iceland. Although only Ásgeirsdóttir and Ragnarsdóttir [40] have examined the business-cycle effects of the collapse on income-related health distributions, the special research opportunity created by those dramatic circumstances in Iceland has been taken advantage of in multiple studies examining the effect of the crisis on health [13, 4144] and health behaviors [4550]. Due to the incredibly low pre-crisis unemployment rate (of only 2% in October 2007) the large percentage increase in unemployment during the crisis still resulted in a lower rate (of 6% in October 2009) than in most other hard-hit countries such as Spain and Ireland [46, 51].…”
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confidence: 99%
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