Income-related inequalities in diseases and health conditions over the business cycle
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Income-related inequalities in diseases and health conditions over the business cycle
How business cycles affect income-related distribution of diseases and health disorders is largely unknown. We examine how the prevalence of thirty diseases and health conditions is distributed across the income spectrum using survey data collected in Iceland in 2007, 2009 and 2012. Thus, we are able to take advantage of the unusually sharp changes in economic conditions in Iceland during the G...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Economics Review
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2191-1991
DOI: 10.1186/s13561-017-0150-x