Evaluation of the Biases in the Studies that Assess the Effects of the Great Recession on Health. A Systematic Review

Autor: Andrés Cabrera, Antonio Daponte, Marc Saez, Maria Antònia Barceló, Carme Saurina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
bias
Health
Toxicology and Mutagenesis

lcsh:Medicine
Great Depression
health status
Review
0302 clinical medicine
Medicine
Selbstmord
Salut
Medicine
Social Medicine

030212 general & internal medicine
Evaluation
Weltwirtschaftskrise
Crisi financera global
2007-2013

Sozialwissenschaften
Soziologie

Mortality rate
evaluation problem
health
Crisis financeres -- S. XXI
Unobserved confounding
Systematic review
Economic Recession
Mental Health
Health
Research Design
Medicine and health
ddc:300
0305 other medical science
Suicide rates
Great recession
Sterblichkeit
03 medical and health sciences
psychische Gesundheit
Humans
ddc:610
Social sciences
sociology
anthropology

suicide
Spanien
Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
time bias
Medizin und Gesundheit
030505 public health
business.industry
Gesundheit
lcsh:R
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health

Global Financial Crisis
2007-2013

mortality
Mental health
EU-SILC
Medizin
Sozialmedizin

Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis
Statistical Methods
Computer Methods

Effects of the Great Recession
Spain
Gesundheitszustand
Financial crises -- 21st century
business
great recession
Demography
Zdroj: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, vol. 16, núm. 14, p. 2479
Articles publicats (D-EC)
DUGiDocs – Universitat de Girona
instname
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 16, Iss 14, p 2479 (2019)
ISSN: 1660-4601
Popis: Our main objective was to evaluate the fundamental biases detected in studies assessing the effects the Great Recession had on health for the case of Spain. As secondary objectives we presented methods to control these biases and to discuss the results of the studies in question if they had controlled for them. Methods: We carried out a systematic review of the literature published up to June 2018. We evaluated the biases that could have happened in all the eligible studies. Results: From the review, we finally selected 53 studies. Of the studies we reviewed, 60.38% or 32 out of 53, were evaluated as having a high risk of bias. The main biases our review revealed were problems with evaluation, time bias, lack of control of unobserved confounding, and non-exogeneity when defining the onset of the Great Recession. Conclusions: The results from the studies that controlled the biases were quite consistent. Summing up, the studies reviewed found that the Great Recession increased the risk of declaring poor self-rated health and the deterioration of mental health. Both the mortality rate and the suicide rate may well have increased after the Great Recession, probably after a three- to four-year delay This work was partly supported by the CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP) through the strategic subprogram ‘Crisis and Health’ and by the University of Girona through the programs MPCUdG2016/69 and GDRCompetUdG2017
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