Short-Term Adverse Effects of Austerity Policies on Mortality Rates: What Could Their Real Magnitude Be?

Affiliations

¹ Cristina Hernández-Quevedo is with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England. Beatriz G. Lopez-Valcarcel is with the Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics & Management, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Miquel Porta is with the Hospital del Mar Institute of Medical Research (IMIM), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain, and the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Editorial

Cristina Hernández-Quevedo et al. Am J Public Health. 2018 Aug.

. 2018 Aug;108(8):983-985.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304507.

¹ Cristina Hernández-Quevedo is with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England. Beatriz G. Lopez-Valcarcel is with the Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics & Management, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Miquel Porta is with the Hospital del Mar Institute of Medical Research (IMIM), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain, and the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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Austerity Policies and Mortality in Spain After the Financial Crisis of 2008.
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