Trends in health and health inequality during the Japanese economic stagnation: Implications for a healthy planet.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Human health and wellbeing may depend on economic growth, the implication being that policymakers need to choose between population health and the health of ecosystems. Over two decades of low economic growth, Japan's life expectancy grew. Here we assess the temporal changes of subjective health and health inequality during the long-term low economic growth period.

Methods

Eight triennial cross-sectional nationally representative surveys in Japan over the period of economic stagnation from 1992 to 2013 were used (n = 625,262). Health is defined positively as wellbeing, and negatively as poor health, based on self-rated health. We used Slope and Relative Indices of Inequality to model inequalities in self-rated health based on household income. Temporal changes i

SUBMITTER: Hiyoshi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9958394 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature