Background Economic recessions may influence illegal drug use via different mechanisms,
for example increased use due to more psychological distress or decreased use due to …

The existing evidence linking recessions to individual and population health presents a
puzzle. Some studies show that people who experience the kinds of labor market, housing …

We examine how deaths and emergency department (ED) visits related to use of opioid
analgesics (opioids) and other drugs vary with macroeconomic conditions. As the county …

Abstract Over the 1976–2010 period, total mortality shifted from strongly procyclical to being
weakly or unrelated to macroeconomic conditions. The association is likely to be poorly …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and
poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable …

We investigate the relationship between foreclosures and hospital visits using data on all
foreclosures and all hospital and emergency room visits from four states that were among …

This study uses the 2008 economic crisis in Iceland to identify the effects of a
macroeconomic downturn on a range of health behaviors. We use longitudinal survey data …

Abstract This European Psychiatric Association (EPA) guidance paper is a result of the
Working Group on Mental Health Consequences of Economic Crises of the EPA Council of …

This analysis summarizes prior research and uses national, US state and county‐level data
from 1976 to 2013 to examine whether the mortality effects of economic crises differ in kind …

Over the past three decades, economists and others have devoted considerable effort to
assessing the impact of alcoholic-beverage taxes and prices on alcohol consumption and its …