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Health and health behaviours before and during the Great Recession, overall and by socioeconomic status, using data from four repeated cross-sectional health surveys in Spain (2001–2012)

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dc.contributor.author Bartoll, Eduard
dc.contributor.author Toffolutti, Veronica
dc.contributor.author Malmusi, Davide, 1980-
dc.contributor.author Palència Fernàndez, Laia, 1980-
dc.contributor.author Borrell i Thió, Carme
dc.contributor.author Suhrcke, Marc
dc.date.accessioned 2015-11-27T10:37:27Z
dc.date.available 2015-11-27T10:37:27Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.identifier.citation Bartoll X, Toffolutti V, Malmusi D, Palència L, Borrell C, Suhrcke M. Health and health behaviours before and during the Great Recession, overall and by socioeconomic status, using data from four repeated cross-sectional health surveys in Spain (2001–2012). BMC Public Health. 2015;15:865.
dc.identifier.issn 1471-2458
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/25247
dc.description.abstract Background. The objective of this study was to estimate changes over time in health status and selected health behaviours during the Great Recession, in the period 2011/12, in Spain, both overall, and according to socioeconomic position and gender./nMethods. We applied a before-after estimation on data from four editions of the Spanish National Health Survey: 2001, 2003/04, 2006/07 and 2011/12. This involved applying linear probability regression models accounting for time-trends and with robust standard errors, using as outcomes self-reported health and health behaviours, and as the main explanatory variable a dummy “Great Recession” for the 2011/12 survey edition. All the computations were run separately by gender. The final sample consisted of 47,156 individuals aged between 25 and 64 years, economically active at the time of the interview. We also assessed the inequality of the effects across socio-economic groups./nResults. The probability of good self-reported health increased for women (men) by 9.6 % (7.6 %) in 2011/12, compared to the long term trend. The changes are significant for all educational levels, except for the least educated. Some healthy behaviours also improved but results were rather variable. Adverse dietary changes did, however, occur among men (though not women) who were unemployed (e.g., the probability of declaring eating fruit daily changed by −12.1 %), and among both men (−21.8 %) and women with the lowest educational level (−15.1 %)./nConclusions. Socioeconomic inequalities in health and health behaviour have intensified, in the period 2011/12, in at least some respects, especially regarding diet. While average self-reported health status and some health behaviours improved during the economic recession, in 2011/12, this improvement was unequal across different socioeconomic groups.
dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013, grant agreement number 278173): “Evaluating the impact of structural policies on health inequalities and their social determinants and fostering change” (SOPHIE) project.
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dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher BioMed Central
dc.relation.ispartof BMC Public Health. 2015;15:865
dc.rights © 2015 Bartoll et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.title Health and health behaviours before and during the Great Recession, overall and by socioeconomic status, using data from four repeated cross-sectional health surveys in Spain (2001–2012)
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2204-5
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/278173
dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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