Abstract
Do economic recessions harm human health? Researchers and policy makers have long been interested in this question as part of a broader area of inquiry around how social and economic conditions influence population health. Economic-related factors, including income, employment, and wealth, are consistently tied to health status and life expectancy, as well as obesity and other risk factors.1,2 Beyond simply measuring associations between these indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP) and health, researchers have studied economic cycles—including recessions and recoveries—to see whether these fluctuations are correlated with similar changes in population health.
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