Food insecurity and social protection in Europe: Quasi-natural experiment of Europe's great recessions 2004-2012

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 89, Issue , 2016, Pages 44-50

  Loopstra, Rachel ^a   Reeves, Aaron ^a,b   McKee, Martin ^c   Stuckler, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food insecurity; Recession; Social protection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EUROPE; EXPENDITURE; FOOD INSECURITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PROTECTION; SOCIETY; UNEMPLOYMENT; CATERING SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; HEALTH CARE COST; PUBLIC POLICY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ECONOMIC RECESSION; EUROPE; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; PUBLIC POLICY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84969983881     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.05.010     Document Type: Article

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