Don’t Go Breaking your Heart: Do Economic Upturns Really Increase Heart Attack Mortality?
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- Svensson, Mikael, 2007. "Do not go breaking your heart: Do economic upturns really increase heart attack mortality?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 65(4), pages 833-841, August.
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Keywords
Mortality; Incidence; Heart attacks; Business cycles; Health;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2006-11-04 (Health Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2006-11-04 (Macroeconomics)
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