Ekonomik Krizlerin Sağlık Davranışlarına Etkileri: Bir ARDL Sınır Testi Yaklaşımı

Abstract

The main aim of this study is to reveal the impacts of 1994, 2001 and 2009 economic crisis on the four health behaviors of population in Turkey between 1974-2015 through ARDL bounds testing approach. According to the results, in terms of the impacts of economic crises on the health behaviors, it has been found the economic crises have had no significant impact on tobacco consumption (p>0.05). On the other hand, only the 2001 and 2009 economic crisis have had an increasing impact on alcohol consumption (p<0.05). For vegetable-fruit consumption, while the 1994 and 2001 economic crisis have had significantly negative impact, the 2009 economic crisis’ impact was significantly positive (p>0.05). For sugar consumption, only the impacts of the 2001 and 2009 economic crisis were significant (p<0.05). From these findings it can be stated that economic crises may effect health behaviors in both negative and positive way.