sheds light on key factors that shape these patterns. Economic recessions trigger highly-persistent increases in the current … imbalances are present, and less when recessions are synchronized across countries. During severe natural disasters or epidemics …

Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven … that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …