Health-income inequality: the effects of the Icelandic economic collapse.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Health-income inequality has been the focus of many studies. The relationship between economic conditions and health has also been widely studied. However, not much is known about how changes in aggregate economic conditions relate to health-income inequality. Nevertheless, such knowledge would have both scientific and practical value as substantial public expenditures are used to decrease such inequalities and opportunities to do so may differ over the business cycle. For this reason we examine the effect of the Icelandic economic collapse in 2008 on health-income inequality.

Methods

The data used come from a health and lifestyle survey carried out by the Public Health Institute of Iceland in 2007 and 2009. A stratified random sample of 9,807 individuals 18-79 

SUBMITTER: Asgeirsdottir TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4119249 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature