id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-347651-tny4bn01 Watkins, Johnathan Three further ways that the COVID-19 pandemic will affect health outcomes 2020-05-05 .txt text/plain 687 42 58 title: Three further ways that the COVID-19 pandemic will affect health outcomes In general, health outcomes improve during recessions, mostly driven by fewer cardiovascularrelated deaths possibly as a result of more active lifestyles (Strumpf et al. If countries respond with austerity measures that lead to a real-terms decline in public health and social care spending, we could see hundreds of thousands of 'excess' deaths or more. To address the economic response challenge, governments need to be prepared to maintain health and care spending in line with demand. Governments can prevent or mitigate this effect by: (1) planning and communicating an exit strategy early to avoid needlessly protracted lockdowns and/or illprepared exits and (2) seeking to maintain public health and social care spending levels. Economic downturns, universal health coverage, and cancer mortality in high-income and middle-income countries, 1990-2010: a longitudinal analysis Effects of health and social care spending constraints on mortality in England: a time trend analysis ./cache/cord-347651-tny4bn01.txt ./txt/cord-347651-tny4bn01.txt