ArticleAmerican journal of public health2018
Austerity Policies and Mortality in Spain After the Financial Crisis of 2008.
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. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 7 papers.
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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 · 2020Article
- Risk of suicide in households threatened with eviction: the role of banks and social support.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Mortality in Spain in the Context of the Economic Crisis and Austerity Policies.American journal of public health · 2019Article
- Austerity and Mortality in Spain: The Perils of Overcorrecting an Analytic Mistake.American journal of public health · 2019Article
- Austerity Policies and Mortality Rates in European Countries, 2011-2015.American journal of public health · 2019Article
- Mortality in working-age population during the Great Recession and austerity in Spain.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo analyze mortality in Spain and the United States before and after these countries implemented divergent policies in response to the financial crisis of 2008.
methodsWe examined mortality statistics in both countries in the years 2000 to 2015. Spain started austerity policies in 2010. We compared differences in mortality ratios, on the basis of trends and effect size analysis.
resultsDuring 2000 to 2010, overall mortality rates (r = 0.98; P < .001; Cohen's d = -0.228) decreased in both countries. In 2011, this trend changed abruptly in Spain, where observed mortality surpassed expected mortality by 29% in 2011 and by 41% in 2015. By contrast, observed mortality surpassed expected mortality in the United States by only 8% in 2015. As the mortality statistics diverged, the effect size greatly increased (d = 7.531). During this 5-year period, there were 505 559 more deaths in Spain than the expected number, while in the United States the difference was 431 501 more deaths despite the 7-fold larger population in the United States compared with Spain.
conclusionsThe marked excess mortality in 2011 to 2015 in Spain is attributable to austerity policies.
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