The Importance of Financial Recession for Mental Health among Students: Short- and Long-Term Analyses from An Ecosocial Perspective

Background and aim Referring to the ecosocial theory and utilising the ‘natural experiment’ setting provided by the global recession at the beginning of 1990s, the aim of our study was to analyse the short- and long-term associations between trade and mental health in young students followed until mid-adulthood. Method The study was based on two prospective cohort studies, the older and the younger Northern Swedish Cohort which both consisted of...