Impact of the great recession on self-perceived health in Spain: a longitudinal study with individual data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our objective in this study is to evaluate the impact the Great Recession (2008-2014) had on self-perceived health in Spain.

Design

We use a longitudinal database (four waves of the Bank of Spain's Survey of Household Finances (2005, 2008, 2011 and 2014)) with repeated observations of the same individuals before and after the Great Recession.

Interventions

We consider the Great Recession in a natural experiment and we introduce it as an explanatory variable in a mixed logistic regression model in which we explain the probability of a subject declaring poor health (fair, bad and very bad). In the model we control for both observed and unobserved confounders at both individual and family level.

Results

We find an average downward trend in self-perceive

SUBMITTER: Saez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6361339 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature