SynthesisPloS one2011
The impact of economic crises on communicable disease transmission and control: a systematic review of the evidence.
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82 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 248 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Economic change and population health: lessons learnt from an umbrella review on the Great Recession.BMJ open · 2022Pooled it
- Going upstream - an umbrella review of the macroeconomic determinants of health and health inequalities.BMC public health · 2019Pooled it
- How do economic crises affect migrants' risk of infectious disease? A systematic-narrative review.European journal of public health · 2015Pooled it
- Incorporation of Social Determinants of Health in the Peer-Reviewed Literature: A Systematic Review of Articles Authored by the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Pooled it
- Insights from Financial Economics to Value Healthcare Investments that Reduce System-Level Risks: Example of Disease Elimination and Eradication.Applied health economics and health policy · 2026Review
- Effects of the pandemic and economic crisis on public search trends related to oral and maxillofacial surgery in Türkiye: a Google Trends time-series analysis (2020-2025).BMC oral health · 2026Observational
- Experience and perspectives of Sudanese pediatricians in delivering telemedicine services to children during armed conflict in Sudan.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- A Combined Aptamer Pulldown-DNAzyme Cleavage Assay for Intact Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Cells.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025Article
- Cancer on Hold, Infections on the Rise: The Unseen Pandemic Effect on Thoracic Surgery in the Developing World.Cureus · 2025Article
- Impact of migrants on communicable diseases in Thailand.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Evaluation of post-COVID mortality risk in cases classified as severe acute respiratory syndrome in Brazil: a longitudinal study for medium and long term.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Annual incidence and fatality rates of notifiable infectious diseases in southeast China from 1950 to 2022 and relationship to socioeconomic development.Journal of global health · 2023Article
- Sexually Transmitted Infections in 2000-2018 in a Specialised Centre: Comparison between Pre-Crisis, Crisis, and Post-Crisis Period.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Risk perception of Ebola virus disease and COVID-19 among transport drivers living in Ugandan border districts.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Regional poverty and infection disease: early exploratory evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic.The Annals of regional science · 2023Article
- REVISITING THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC IN WEST AFRICA: THE ROLE OF EMOTIONAL DETERMINANTS IN PUBLIC RESPONSES.African journal of infectious diseases · 2023Article
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physicians' Working Hours and Earnings in São Paulo and Maranhão States, Brazil.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Is Buying Local Less Expensive? Debunking a Myth-Assessing the Price Competitiveness of Local Food Products in Canada.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- "SPEECH": A literature based framework for the study of past epidemics.Journal of infection and public health · 2022Review
22 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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12 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
There is concern among public health professionals that the current economic downturn, initiated by the financial crisis that started in 2007, could precipitate the transmission of infectious diseases while also limiting capacity for control. Although studies have reviewed the potential effects of economic downturns on overall health, to our knowledge such an analysis has yet to be done focusing on infectious diseases. We performed a systematic literature review of studies examining changes in infectious disease burden subsequent to periods of crisis. The review identified 230 studies of which 37 met our inclusion criteria. Of these, 30 found evidence of worse infectious disease outcomes during recession, often resulting from higher rates of infectious contact under poorer living circumstances, worsened access to therapy, or poorer retention in treatment. The remaining studies found either reductions in infectious disease or no significant effect. Using the paradigm of the "SIR" (susceptible-infected-recovered) model of infectious disease transmission, we examined the implications of these findings for infectious disease transmission and control. Key susceptible groups include infants and the elderly. We identified certain high-risk groups, including migrants, homeless persons, and prison populations, as particularly vulnerable conduits of epidemics during situations of economic duress. We also observed that the long-term impacts of crises on infectious disease are not inevitable: considerable evidence suggests that the magnitude of effect depends critically on budgetary responses by governments. Like other emergencies and natural disasters, preparedness for financial crises should include consideration of consequences for communicable disease control.
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