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received: 22 November 2016 accepted: 15 March 2017 Published: 10 April 2017
Medium-term impact of the economic crisis on mortality, health-related behaviours and access to healthcare in Greece Filippos T. Filippidis1,2, Vasiliki Gerovasili3, Christopher Millett1 & Yannis Tountas2 Previous studies on the health consequences of the crisis in Greece investigated short-term impacts on selected outcomes. This study examined the impact of the crisis on a key set of health indicators with longer follow up than previous studies. We conducted interrupted time series (ITS) analysis to compare trends in standardised mortality by cause before and during the crisis. We examined changes in fruit and vegetable consumption, smoking, physical activity, obesity, out-of-pocket payments and unmet needs for healthcare using national household data from the “Hellas Health” surveys. Standardised mortality rates for suicides (p
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received: 22 November 2016 accepted: 15 March 2017 Published: 10 April 2017
Medium-term impact of the economic crisis on mortality, health-related behaviours and access to healthcare in Greece Filippos T. Filippidis1,2, Vasiliki Gerovasili3, Christopher Millett1 & Yannis Tountas2 Previous studies on the health consequences of the crisis in Greece investigated short-term impacts on selected outcomes. This study examined the impact of the crisis on a key set of health indicators with longer follow up than previous studies. We conducted interrupted time series (ITS) analysis to compare trends in standardised mortality by cause before and during the crisis. We examined changes in fruit and vegetable consumption, smoking, physical activity, obesity, out-of-pocket payments and unmet needs for healthcare using national household data from the “Hellas Health” surveys. Standardised mortality rates for suicides (p
