How the economic recession has changed the likelihood of reporting poor self-rated health in Spain

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Arroyo, Elena ^a,b   Renart, Gemma ^a,b   Saez, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chronic conditions; Economic downturn; Health econometrics; Health surveys; Self rated health

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INSTABILITY; FINANCIAL CRISIS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; SELF REPORT; SELF REPORTED HEALTH; SMOKING; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

CATALONIA; SPAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF REPORT; SPAIN;

EID: 84950300286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12939-015-0285-5     Document Type: Article

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