Unemployment, government healthcare spending, and cerebrovascular mortality, worldwide 1981-2009: An ecological study

International Journal of Stroke

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 364-371

  Maruthappu, Mahiben ^a   Shalhoub, Joseph ^a   Tariq, Zoon ^b   Williams, Callum ^b,c   Atun, Rifat ^a,d   Davies, Alun H ^a   Zeltner, Thomas ^e,f  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular disease; Economic recession; Mortality; Public health expenditure; Stroke; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NUTRITION EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBANIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84924914195     PISSN: 17474930     EISSN: 17474949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ijs.12408     Document Type: Article

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