Urban regeneration policies and mental health in a context of economic crisis in Andalusia (Spain)
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Urban regeneration policies and mental health in a context of economic crisis in Andalusia (Spain) Ángel R. Zapata Moya1 · Clemente J. Navarro Yáñez2 Received: 21 February 2019 / Accepted: 1 August 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Literature suggests that urban regeneration policies might contribute towards improving mental health of residents, but to date there is a lack of empirical research on how these policies and downward social mobility can interact and influence health outcomes. The current study aims to explicitly test whether regeneration policies implemented in deprived Andalusian urban places (southern Spain) moderate the use of anxiolytics and/or antidepressants, taking into consideration families’ downward social mobility during the recent period of economic crisis in Spain. We designed a post intervention survey to retrospectively compare the evolution of psychotropic drug consumption in target and comparison areas. We observe a general increase in the use of anxiolytics and/or antidepressants from 2008 to 2015, specifically for people in whose families the economic crisis had the greatest impact (odds ratio = 2.18; p value
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