The impact of the Great Recession on mental health and its inequalities: the case of a Southern European region, 1997-2013
dc.contributor.author | Bacigalupe de la Hera, Amaia | |
dc.contributor.author | Esnaola, Santiago | |
dc.contributor.author | Martín Roncero, Unai | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-18T16:02:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-05-18T16:02:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-01-26 | |
dc.identifier.citation | International Journal for Equity in Health 15 : (2016) // Article ID 17 | es |
dc.identifier.issn | 1475-9276 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/18280 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: Numerous studies have shown that macroeconomic changes have a great influence on health, prompting different concerns in recent literature about the effects of the current recession. The objetive of the study was to assess the changes in the mental health of the working-age population in the Basque Country (Spain) and its social inequalities following the onset of the 2008 recession, with special focus on the role of unemployment. Methods: Repeated cross-sectional study on the population aged 16-64, using four Basque Health Surveys (1997-2013). Age-adjusted prevalences of poor mental health and incremental prevalence ratios (working status and social class adjusted) between years were calculated. Absolute/relative measures of social inequalities were also calculated. Results: From 2008, there was a clear deterioration in the mental health, especially among men. Neither changes in employment status nor social class accounted for these changes. In men, the deterioration affected all working status categories, except the retired but significant changes occurred only among the employed. In women, poor mental health significantly increased among the unemployed. Students were also especially affected. Relative inequalities increased only in men. Conclusions: The Great Recession is being accompanied by adverse effects on mental health, which cannot be fully explained by the increase of unemployment. Public healt | es |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was partially supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (State Programme for Promotion of Scientific and Technical Research Challenges (CSO2013-44886-R)). | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.publisher | Biomed Central | es |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | |
dc.subject | economic recession | es |
dc.subject | spain | es |
dc.subject | socioeconomic factors | es |
dc.subject | mental health | es |
dc.subject | Unemployment | es |
dc.subject | economic-crisis | es |
dc.subject | depressive symptons | es |
dc.subject | social class | es |
dc.subject | greece | es |
dc.subject | population | es |
dc.subject | consequences | es |
dc.subject | mortality | es |
dc.subject | stress | es |
dc.title | The impact of the Great Recession on mental health and its inequalities: the case of a Southern European region, 1997-2013 | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es |
dc.rights.holder | © 2016 Bacigalupe et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated | es |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución 3.0 España | |
dc.relation.publisherversion | http://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-015-0283-7#Abs1 | es |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s12939-015-0283-7 | |
dc.departamentoes | Sociología II | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Soziologia II | es_ES |
dc.subject.categoria | HEALTH POLICY AND SERVICES | |
dc.subject.categoria | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH |
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