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Narrative Economics, Public Policy and Mental Health

Annie Tubadji Orcid Logo, Frederic Boy Orcid Logo, Don J. Webber

Applied Research in Quality of Life, Volume: 18

Swansea University Authors: Annie Tubadji Orcid Logo, Frederic Boy Orcid Logo

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General public’s mental health can be affected by the public policy response to a pandemic threat. Britain, Italy and Sweden have had very distinct approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic: early lock-down, delayed lock-down and no-lock-down. We develop a novel narrative economics of language Culture-Bas...

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Published in: Applied Research in Quality of Life
ISSN: 1871-2584 1871-2576
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2022
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