Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Soc Sci Med. 2012 Mar;74(5):643-6. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.12.013. Epub 2011 Dec 28.
Economic crises can have important effects on a wide variety of determinants of individual and population health, and these effects may be played out over the life course. However, social and economic policies have the potential to mitigate at least some of the potential negative health effects of economic crises, and the substantial variation in these policies across countries suggests that the impact of economic crises may vary between countries. We know much less about this than we need to. Only with expanded efforts to provide a true accounting of the health costs of economic crises, and of the ways in which social and economic policies can reduce these costs, can we prepare ourselves to protect population health when the next economic crises happen, which they surely will.
经济危机可能对个人和人群健康的广泛决定因素产生重要影响，并且这些影响可能会在整个生命周期中显现出来。然而，社会和经济政策有可能减轻经济危机对健康造成的至少一些潜在负面影响，而且各国之间这些政策的巨大差异表明，经济危机的影响可能因国家而异。我们对此的了解远远不够。只有通过加大努力，真正说明经济危机对健康造成的代价，以及社会和经济政策减少这些代价的方式，我们才能在下次经济危机发生时做好保护人群健康的准备，因为经济危机肯定会再次发生。
