Economic crisis and stillbirth ratios: Evidence from Southern Europe

In this paper we assess the impact of the recent European recession on stillbirth indices over the course of the 2000s and 2010s; the analysis focuses on four Southern European countries (Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal), which were seriously affected by the sovereign debt crisis from around 2008 to...

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Autores principales:	Cleon Tsimbos, Georgia Verropoulou, Dimitra Petropoulou
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b348ced871ee475dbe9e52b1b96db0962021-11-25T06:19:34ZEconomic crisis and stillbirth ratios: Evidence from Southern Europe1932-6203https://doaj.org/article/b348ced871ee475dbe9e52b1b96db0962021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8601575/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203In this paper we assess the impact of the recent European recession on stillbirth indices over the course of the 2000s and 2010s; the analysis focuses on four Southern European countries (Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal), which were seriously affected by the sovereign debt crisis from around 2008 to 2017. We use national vital statistics and established economic indicators for the period 2000–2017; stillbirth ratios (stillbirths per 1000 livebirths) are the chosen response variable. For the purpose of the study, we employ correlation analysis and fit regression models. The overall impact of economic indicators on the stillbirth indices is sizeable and statistically robust. We find that a healthy economy is associated with low and declining levels of stillbirth measures. In contrast, economic recession appears to have an adverse effect (Greece, Italy and Spain), or an unclear impact (Portugal), on the stillbirth outcome. This study provides evidence of the adverse effect of the European sovereign debt crisis and ensuing period of austerity on a scarcely explored aspect of health.Cleon TsimbosGeorgia VerropoulouDimitra PetropoulouPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Cleon Tsimbos Georgia Verropoulou Dimitra Petropoulou Economic crisis and stillbirth ratios: Evidence from Southern Europe
description	In this paper we assess the impact of the recent European recession on stillbirth indices over the course of the 2000s and 2010s; the analysis focuses on four Southern European countries (Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal), which were seriously affected by the sovereign debt crisis from around 2008 to 2017. We use national vital statistics and established economic indicators for the period 2000–2017; stillbirth ratios (stillbirths per 1000 livebirths) are the chosen response variable. For the purpose of the study, we employ correlation analysis and fit regression models. The overall impact of economic indicators on the stillbirth indices is sizeable and statistically robust. We find that a healthy economy is associated with low and declining levels of stillbirth measures. In contrast, economic recession appears to have an adverse effect (Greece, Italy and Spain), or an unclear impact (Portugal), on the stillbirth outcome. This study provides evidence of the adverse effect of the European sovereign debt crisis and ensuing period of austerity on a scarcely explored aspect of health.
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author	Cleon Tsimbos Georgia Verropoulou Dimitra Petropoulou
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title	Economic crisis and stillbirth ratios: Evidence from Southern Europe
title_short	Economic crisis and stillbirth ratios: Evidence from Southern Europe
title_full	Economic crisis and stillbirth ratios: Evidence from Southern Europe
title_fullStr	Economic crisis and stillbirth ratios: Evidence from Southern Europe
title_full_unstemmed	Economic crisis and stillbirth ratios: Evidence from Southern Europe
title_sort	economic crisis and stillbirth ratios: evidence from southern europe
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
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Economic crisis and stillbirth ratios: Evidence from Southern Europe

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