Kawachi, I;
Kyriopoulos, I;
Vandoros, S;
(2023)
Economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease mortality.
Health Economics
, 32
(7)
pp. 1550-1560.
10.1002/hec.4678.
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Abstract
Previous studies have found a link between economic conditions, such as recessions and unemployment, and cardiovascular disease as well as other health outcomes. More recent research argues that economic uncertainty—independently of unemployment—can affect health outcomes. Using data from England and Wales, we study the association between fluctuations in economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease mortality in the short term for the period 2001–2019. Controlling for several economic indicators (including unemployment), we find that economic uncertainty alone is strongly associated with deaths attributed to diseases of the circulatory system, ischemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease. Our findings highlight the short-term link between economic conditions and cardiovascular health and reveal yet another health outcome that is associated with uncertainty.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease mortality |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/hec.4678 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4678 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Authors. Health Economics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | cardiovascular disease, economic uncertainty, mortality, Humans, Cardiovascular Diseases, Uncertainty, Unemployment, England, Cardiovascular System, Economic Recession, Mortality |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10173424 |
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