This paper examines the relation between unemployment and CVD mortality in European Union countries during the first … decade of the 21st century. Two separate studies are summarized, focussing on increased heart disease and stroke mortality … of 2007 - 2009. Unemployment rates and mortality from two cardiovascular illnesses are viewed in pooled cross …

This study estimates a reduced-form regression model for mortality rates due to alcoholic liver diseases, with alcohol … Union. In the reduced-form, prices affect mortality rates indirectly through the demand for alcohol, while income has … alcohol consumption and mortality. Special attention is paid to outliers in the data and final results are based on the MS …

, Germany, Sweden and Netherlands have also seen a sharp slowdown. Overall, the pace of mortality improvement has slowed in …. Improvements in cardiovascular (CVD) disease mortality have slowed in many countries, respiratory diseases, including influenza and … countries, notably the USA and the UK, mortality improvements have also slowed or even reversed among working age adults because …

This paper investigates the effects of national unemployment rates on overall age and cause-specific mortality rates in …, positive relationship between adverse economic conditions and the mortality …

component of personal health care. For example, between 1999 and 2000, hospital care costs rose about 5 percent, physicians and …

In the present paper it will be shown empirically that government health care expenditure reduces mortality. For this …