What will the current economic crisis mean for the health of the people of Northern Ireland? We review the experience of three major economic crises in the 20(th) century: the Great Depression (1929), the Post-communist Depression (early 1990 s) and the East Asian financial crisis (late 1990 s). Available evidence suggests that health is at risk in times of rapid economic change, in both booms ...

 Beijing’s industrial structure is service-oriented with a high degree of economic openness, and GDP has maintained rapid growth. This paper analyzes the international financial crisis and the impact of China’s anti-crisis policies on Beijing’s economic development as well as its transmission mechanism. Impact Index (excluding seasonal factors) and ARMA Model are employed in the empirical...

Suicides, hurricanes and economic crisis Director, Lopez Bernal et al. 1 detected a suicide rate trend, between 2005 and 2010, of a 0.3% decrease per month and, above this underlying trend, an 8% increase in Spanish suicide rates since the financial crisis using an interrupted time-series analysis. However, their model considers the economic crisis as an event that occurred suddenly in March 20...

The current financial and economic crisis has, in the meantime, generated an abundance of economic literature. " Animal Spirit " by Akerlof and Shiller stands out from this crowd. This book is not intended to provide new or revamped familiar economic recipes for coping with the crisis, nor has it been written by authors who have converted to Keynesianism in light of recent events. Naturally, Ak...

It is perhaps too glib to record that the 1997–1998 financial crisis represented a watershed for the economies of east Asia. But it is certainly clear that many of the economic policies in the region, which had been viewed in a favourable light in the long years of spectacular economic growth, were reassessed in the light of the crisis. A critical part of this reassessment involved monetary pol...

Much of the debate surrounding the recent global crisis is focused on respective governments’ policy responses to the financial and economic downturn. Much less attention has been placed on the manner in which private sector businesses responded to the crisis. This study analyses the results of a survey of 284 Jamaican businesses conducted in the first quarter of 2009. It identifies the respons...

Do THE ECONOMIES OF East Asia need to undertake fundamental economic reform to resume a path of strong economic growth? This vital question, posed in the wake of the economic crisis of 1997, has divided both economists and policymakers. The case against major structural reform begins with the dramatic growth of these economies over the past twenty years. For example, Korea, the focus of this pa...

In this article, we interrogate the policy response of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to the global financial crisis, and discuss the likely global health implications, especially in low-income countries. In doing so, we ask if the IMF has meaningfully loosened its fiscal deficit targets in light of the economic challenges posed by the financial crisis and adjusted its macro-economic pol...

BACKGROUND Ill health is a risk factor and a consequence of unemployment, which might vary depending on the national rate of unemployment. We investigated the long-term effect of youth unemployment on mental health and explored the possible interaction during periods of high (economic crisis) and low (non-crisis) unemployment rates. METHODS A register-linked population-based cohort study was ...

Financial crisis can be a threat to health, and International Monetary Fund programmes have been associated with impeded efforts to control child and maternal mortality. In 2008, Greece entered the most serious socioeconomic downturn in the country’s modern history, which has steadily worsened over the following years. Vlachadis and Kornarou reported that an increase in stillbirths in Greece wa...