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Looking beyond the veil of the European crisis - the need to uncover the structural causes of health inequalities

Authors: Antonio Escolar Pujolar, Amaia Bacigalupe, Miguel San Sebastian

Published in: International Journal for Equity in Health | Issue 1/2016

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We are happy to announce the second cluster of papers around the economic crisis and its impact on health in Europe in our journal, the International Journal for Equity in Health. Nine empirical articles and two commentaries are included in this volume. This important amount of research points to the relevance of continuing to monitor the health impacts of the economic crisis in the European region. …

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Escolar-Pujolar A, Bacigalupe A, San SM. European economic crisis and health inequities: research challenges in an uncertain scenario. Int J Equity Health. 2014;13:59.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Krugman P. The austerity delusion. The Guardian, 29th April 2015. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2015/apr/29/the-austerity-delusion. Accessed February 9th 2016.

Blanchard OJ, Leigh D. Growth forecast errors and fiscal multipliers. International Monetary Fund working paper; 2013. Available at: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp1301.pdf. Accessed February 9th 2016.

Cavero T, Poinasamy K. A cautionary tale: The true cost of austerity and inequality in Europe. Oxford: Oxfam International; 2013. Available at: https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/bp174-cautionarytale-austerity-inequality-europe-120913-en_1.pdf. Accessed February 9th 2016.

The brain drain phenomenon within the European Union. Available at http://one-europe.info/brain-drain-eu. Accessed February 9th 2016.

Jauer J, Liebig T, Martin JP, Puhani PA. Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States. Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Discussion Paper No. 7921, January 2014.

OECD. How will the refugee surge affect the European economy? Migr Policy Debates. 2015; 8. Available at http://www.oecd.org/migration/How-will-the-refugee-surge-affect-the-European-economy.pdf. Accessed 16th February 2016

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Karanikolos M. Health inequalities after austerity in Greece. Int J Equity Health 2016 (In press).

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Arroyo E, Renart G, Saez M. How the economic recession has changed the likelihood of reporting poor self-rated health in Spain. Int J Equity Health. 2015;14(1):149.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

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Abebe DS, Tøge AG, Dahl E. Individual-level changes in self-rated health before and during the economic crisis in Europe. Int J Equity Health. 2016;15(1):1.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

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Zapata Moya AR, Buffel V, Navarro Yáñez CJ, Bracke P. Social inequality in morbidity, framed within the current economic crisis in Spain. Int J Equity Health. 2015;14(1):131.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

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Rajmil L, Siddiqi A, Taylor-Robinson D, Spencer N. Understanding the impact of the economic crisis on child health: the case of Spain. Int J Equity Health. 2015;14:95.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

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Bacigalupe A, Esnaola S, Martín U. The impact of the Great Recession on mental health and its inequalities: the case of a Southern European region, 1997-2013. Int J Equity Health. 2016;15:17.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

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Novoa AM, Ward J, Malmusi D, Díaz F, Darnell M, Trilla C, Bosch J, Borrell C. How substandard dwellings and housing affordability problems are associated with poor health in a vulnerable population during the economic recession of the late 2000s. Int J Equity Health. 2015;14:120.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

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Saurina C, Marzo M, Saez M. Inequalities in suicide mortality rates and the economic recession in the municipalities of Catalonia, Spain. Int J Equity Health. 2015;14:75.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Title: Looking beyond the veil of the European crisis - the need to uncover the structural causes of health inequalities
Authors: Antonio Escolar Pujolar
Amaia Bacigalupe
Miguel San Sebastian
Publication date: 01-12-2016
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: International Journal for Equity in Health / Issue 1/2016
Electronic ISSN: 1475-9276
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-016-0329-5

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