does the crisis make us sick? about the economic and social determinants of health
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Does the crisis make us sick? About the economic and social determinants of health
Aaron ReevesUniversity of Cambridge
asr45@cam.ac.uk
Thanks to...
Martin McKeeLSHTM
Sanjay BasuUCSF
Chris MeissnerUniversity of California Davis
David StucklerUniversity of Cambridge
Austerity and the economic crisis
• Recession ->– Increased suicide– Decline in traffic accidents
• Austerity ->– Increased rates of infectious disease– Increased suicide rates
Suicide
Impact of 1% rise in unemployment on mortality
Source: Stuckler et al 2009 Lancet
Suicide
Rising Suicides
- 9 out of 10 countries suicides rose
Source: Stuckler et al 2011 Lancet
- About 3400 excess suicides
New member states Old member states
Infection
New HIV cases in Greece
Note: Data on HIV, hep b and hep c are collected in 3 sentinel surveillance sites where these patterns have been confirmed
10-fold rise in HIV from injection drug use
Source: Paraskevis and Hatzakis 2011
Are these inevitable?
• Social Protection austerity
• Health care austerity
• Austerity and economic growth
Social protection austerity
Social welfare expenditure • “the provision by public (and private) institutions of benefits
to, and financial contributions targeted at, households and individuals in order to provide support during circumstances which adversely affect their welfare.”
• Includes spending related to: – family support programmes (such as preschool education, child care,
and maternity or paternity leave), – old age pensions and survivors benefits, – health care, – housing (such as rent subsidies), – unemployment benefits, – active labour market programmes (to maintain employment or help
the unemployed obtain jobs), and support for people with disabilities.
Social Protection Change: 2007-2010
• Social spending up
• Increase unemployment benefits
• Decrease disability benefits
increase decrease
Countries with no social protection spending data: Belgium, Iceland, Romania, and Switzerland.
Spain and Sweden
Social Protections Help…
Each 100 USD greater social spending reduced the effect on suicides by:
- 0.38%, active labour market programmes
Spending> 190 USD no effect of unemployment on suicide
Source: Stuckler et al 2009 Lancet
Source: Stuckler D et al. BMJ, 2010, 340.
Relation between deviation from country average of social welfare spending (excludinghealth) and all-cause mortality in 15 EU countries, 1980–2005
Healthcare austerity
Healthcare austerity
Healthcare austerity
Healthcare austerity: Greece
Source: EU-SILC: Kentikelenis et al., 2011, Health effects of financial crisis, The Lancet 2011; 378:1457-1458)
Cost of heath care and utilization
• “Reductions in routine care today might lead to undetected illness tomorrow and reduced individual health and well-being in the more distant future.”
Source: Lusardi A et al. The economic crisis and medical care usage. Harvard Business School, 2010.
Med copayment
High copayment
Low copayment
New HIV cases in Greece
Note: Data on HIV, hep b and hep c are collected in 3 sentinel surveillance sites where these patterns have been confirmed
10-fold rise in HIV from injection drug use
Source: Paraskevis and Hatzakis 2011
Healthcare austerity
Spain Mental Health Crises
- 1.7-fold greater risk of depression in unemployed
Source: Gili, et al 2012 JECH
- 3.0-fold greater risk in mortgage payment problems
Prevalence Change, 2006 to 2010
Austerity, fiscal multipliers, and Economic growth
Fiscal Multipliers: The effect of public spending on the economy
Govt spending (+£1)Or
Austerity (-£1)
Fiscal Multiplier
How that investment or reduction effects
economy?
>1
IncreasedGrowth(GDP)
<1 ReducedGrowth(GDP)
Austerity and economic growth
Key conclusions
• Recession -> poorer health• Austerity -> Increased suicide, heart disease
mortality, infectious disease
• Not inevitable– Social protection– Health care– Public expenditure (e.g. Health and social
protection) fosters economic growth
Data
• ‘In marked contrast to financial data, some of which are available instantaneously and others, such as economic growth, within a few weeks, data on mortality in many countries are delayed by several years’ (McKee et al., 2012)
• Even now the full extent of the crisis on health is obscured by lack of available data.
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