Effects of a national economic crisis on dental habits and checkup behaviors - a prospective cohort study.

Objectives: The effects of economic recessions on dental health behaviors and care utilization are vastly unexamined. Thus, we aimed to ascertain changes in dental health behaviors and checkup frequency from before to after the start of the 2008 Icelandic economic collapse using a nationally representative, prospective cohort - the Health and Wellbeing in Iceland cohort.

Methods: Participants in the cohort (n = 4100) were contacted first from October to December of 2007 and again from November to December of 2009.

Economic crisis and smoking behaviour: prospective cohort study in Iceland.

Objective: To examine the associations between the 2008 economic collapse in Iceland and smoking behaviour at the national and individual levels.

Design: A population-based, prospective cohort study based on a mail survey (Health and Wellbeing in Iceland) assessed in 2007 and 2009.

Setting: National mail survey.