Short-Term Adverse Effects of Austerity Policies on Mortality Rates: What Could Their Real Magnitude Be?

Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Beatriz G Lopez-Valcarcel, Miquel Porta

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Article in American journal of public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

Austerity, healthcare provision, and health outcomes in Spain.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2020
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Mortality in Spain in the Context of the Economic Crisis and Austerity Policies.American journal of public health · 2019
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Austerity and Mortality in Spain: The Perils of Overcorrecting an Analytic Mistake.American journal of public health · 2019
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Austerity Policies and Mortality Rates in European Countries, 2011-2015.American journal of public health · 2019
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Mortality in working-age population during the Great Recession and austerity in Spain.PloS one · 2019
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Overall mortality trends in Greece during the first period of austerity and the economic crisis (2009-2015).Hippokratia
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From Policy to Practice: A Qualitative Study on Reforms and Frontline Retention in Healthcare.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing
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Austerity Policies and Mortality in Spain After the Financial Crisis of 2008.2018

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Cristina Hernández-QuevedoCristina Hernández-Quevedo is with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England. Beatriz G. Lopez-Valcarcel is with the Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics & Management, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Miquel Porta is with the Hospital del Mar Institute of Medical Research (IMIM), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain, and the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Beatriz G Lopez-ValcarcelCristina Hernández-Quevedo is with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England. Beatriz G. Lopez-Valcarcel is with the Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics & Management, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Miquel Porta is with the Hospital del Mar Institute of Medical Research (IMIM), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain, and the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Miquel PortaCristina Hernández-Quevedo is with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England. Beatriz G. Lopez-Valcarcel is with the Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics & Management, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Miquel Porta is with the Hospital del Mar Institute of Medical Research (IMIM), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain, and the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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Abstract

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PMID29995467

DOI10.2105/AJPH.2018.304507

PMCPMC6050852

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