What accounts for the rise of low self-rated health during the recent economic crisis in Europe?

Table 2 Estimates of low SRH^a rates for various samples of European countries, 2008–2011

Sample	Low SRH (%) in 2008	Low SRH (%) in 2011	Change in low SRH	% change in low SRH	P-value^b
All EU countries	26.66 (0.2)	28.52 (0.2)	1.9	7.0	0.000
Severe recession countries^c	24.44 (0.4)	23.89 (0.4)	−0.6	−2.3	0.315
Baltic countries	46.50 (0.8)	50.29 (0.8)	3.8	8.2	0.001

Standard errors clustered by country appear in parentheses
a: Low SRH is defined as the proportion of population with very bad, bad or fair SRH
b: p-value for the test of equality between the estimates of low SRH rates for 2008 and 2011
c: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Spain

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