IJE Advance Access originally published online on October 21, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(6):1226-1233; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi207
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Response: On economic growth, business fluctuations, and health progress
Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1111 East Catherine Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2054, USA. E-mail: jatapia@umich.edu
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Demographic research on preindustrial societies has documented links between harvest yields, grain prices, real wages, and changes in mortality, but mortality hikes as a result of agricultural failures or grain price inflation become more muted as the level of development increases.1–5 During the early industrialization period in the 19th century, decades of rapid economic growth coincided with stagnating or even increasing mortality in the United States and Britain.6,7 During the Second World War, deaths from coronary disease declined in Norway and other German-occupied countries as fats and calories were drastically cut in the diet. Then, in 1945, pre-war levels returned both in diet and coronary deaths.8 It also appears that the blockage of Confederate cotton exports at the start of the US civil war and the subsequent work stoppage improved both adult and infant health in the textile districts of England. Adults were no longer exposed to exhausting work and
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If mortality is higher among the unemployed, how can it drop during recessions? |
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East/West mortality and the impact of the welfare state on the fluctuations of death rates |
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On theoretical perspectives, countercyclical policies, and human myopia |
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