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Influence of Economic Instability on Health

Proceedings of a Symposium organized by the Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung, Institut für Medizinische Informatik und Systemforschung, with technical support from the World Health Organisation, Regional Office for Europe, München, Federal Republic of Germany, 9–11 September 1981

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. J. John

    1. Institut für Medizinische Informatik und Systemforschung (MEDIS), Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung mbH München (GSF), Neuherberg, Germany

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  2. D. Schwefel

    1. Institut für Medizinische Informatik und Systemforschung (MEDIS), Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung mbH München (GSF), Neuherberg, Germany

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  3. H. Zöllner

    1. Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics (LNMED, volume 21)

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Table of contents (22 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-VIII
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  2. Influence of Economic Instability on Health

    1. Influence of Economic Instability on Health

      • Keith Barnard
      Pages 1-25

  3. Recent Empirical Research: Aggregate-Level Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 26-26
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    2. Mortality and Economic Instability: Detailed Analyses for Britain

      • M. Harvey Brenner
      Pages 27-84

    3. Socio-Economic Change and Mortality a Multivariate Coherency Analysis of Danish Time Series

      • Jes Søgaard
      Pages 85-112

    4. Economic Instability and Mortality in the Federal Republic of Germany

      • Jürgen John
      Pages 113-138

    5. An Attempt to Analyse Some Dependences between Economic and Health Status in Poland in the Years 1959 – 1979

      • Włodzimierz Cezary Włodarczyk, Zuzanna Szubert, Marek Bryła
      Pages 139-168

    6. Unemployment, Nutrition and Infant Mortality in Britain 1920 – 1950

      • Jay M. Winter
      Pages 169-199

    7. Involuntary Unemployment and Health Status: A Regional Case Study Utilising Sociological and Micro-Epidemiological Perspectives

      • Malcolm Colledge, Michael Kingham
      Pages 200-223

  4. Recent Empirical Research: Individual-Level Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 224-224
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    2. The Health Effects of Economic Instability: A Test of the Economic Stress Hypothesis

      • Ralph Catalano, David Dooley
      Pages 225-262

    3. Health Problems and Psycho-Social Strains of Unemployed a Summary of Recent Empirical Research in the Federal Republic of Germany

      • Christian Brinkmann
      Pages 263-285

    4. Unemployment: A Psychiatric Problem as Well?

      • Leonard Fagin
      Pages 286-292

    5. Economic Deprivation, Work Orientation and Health Conceptual Ideas and Some Empirical Findings

      • Dieter Fröhlich
      Pages 293-320

    6. Unemployment and Life-Style Changes

      • Niels Beckmann, Klaus-Dieter Hahn
      Pages 321-337

    7. Strategies of Research on Economic Instability and Health

      • Stanislav V. Kasl
      Pages 338-370

    8. Methodological Problems in the Measurement of Health Consequences of Unemployment in Sample Surveys

      • Klaus Preiser
      Pages 371-385

  5. Further Research: Proposals and Strategy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 386-386
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    2. Unemployment, the Unemployed, and Health

      • Ingeborg P. Spruit
      Pages 387-426

    3. Prevalence of Unemployment Amongst Those Becoming Ill

      • C. A. Birt
      Pages 427-432
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About this book

The worldwide economic recession of the last years - sometimes described as an outright depression similar to the one of the early thirties - has led many health policy analysts and even policy makers to revive the old question of whether, and in what respect, there is a close relationship between economic development and health. In tackling this question, to­ day's health services research looks rather helpless: even if a truth has the appearance of a truism, it will not necessarily be aCknowledged in practice. While it is an established fact that social as well as (macro)economic conditions or events have an important influence on the health of people, this subject has been rarely pursued by medical or epidemiological research and rather has been treated - in industrial countries at least - as a quantit~ n~gligeable. Yet, this ahistoric and even parochial attitude must be questioned on methodological as well as political grounds. - As to methodological aspects, further investigation into the relation­ ship between health and the economy is essential in order to identify the real relevance, i. e. opportunity costs, of medical care; even more important, it might also direct attention to the interfaces - fairly neglected by our over-specialized system of sciences - between biome­ tries and econometrics, medicine and epidemiology, epidemiology and socio-economics. It is, hence,an area of research from which methodo­ l09iCa-l development can receive' major stimuli.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Medizinische Informatik und Systemforschung (MEDIS), Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung mbH München (GSF), Neuherberg, Germany

    J. John, D. Schwefel

  • Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization, Copenhagen, Denmark

    H. Zöllner

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Influence of Economic Instability on Health

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of a Symposium organized by the Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung, Institut für Medizinische Informatik und Systemforschung, with technical support from the World Health Organisation, Regional Office for Europe, München, Federal Republic of Germany, 9–11 September 1981

  • Editors: J. John, D. Schwefel, H. Zöllner

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07891-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-12274-6Published: 01 April 1983

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-07891-4Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0172-7788

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 529

  • Topics: Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences

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