Mediterranean diets: financial crisis prompts trimming of health care's waistline
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Mediterranean diets: financial crisis prompts trimming of health care's waistline.
They’ve been pejoratively dubbed the “PIGS” of Europe: Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. Their financial indebtedness has necessitated bailouts from the European Union and other international institutions, and as they scramble to sort out their wrecked economies, health care is starting to feel the pinch. Greece has perhaps been the hardest hit. After it teetered on the brink of bankruptcy ear...
متن کاملHealth workforce in times of financial crisis.
Planning of health workforce is a complex issue even in times of stable socio-economic circumstances. Due to the multiple influences affecting it and due to the high costs of health workforce education and training, health workforce represents an important asset in any country. In contrast, as the demand for health services keeps growing, so does the demand for the different health professional...
متن کاملFinancial crisis, austerity, and health in Europe.
The financial crisis in Europe has posed major threats and opportunities to health. We trace the origins of the economic crisis in Europe and the responses of governments, examine the effect on health systems, and review the effects of previous economic downturns on health to predict the likely consequences for the present. We then compare our predictions with available evidence for the effects...
متن کاملThe global financial crisis, health and health care.
From the early outward signs of a collapse in the US sub-prime mortgage market in the spring of 2007, the global banking crisis unfolded. Financial institutions thought too big to fail, failed. In the summer of 2007 the French bank BNP Paribas ceased activity in three hedge funds that specialized in USmortgage debt.Meanwhile, in Britain, on 14th September investors in the bank, Northern Rock, w...
متن کاملHealth impact of Mediterranean diets in food at work.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility of diet mediterranisation, in a food-at-work context, and its consequence on metabolic syndrome in a mid-age unselected healthy male population group. DESIGN One-year longitudinal intervention study. Physical exercise was not modified. SETTING All workers of the Santiago division of 'Maestranza Diesel', a metal-mechanic company servicing the mining indu...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.109-3343