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Mon Apr 29, 2013, 04:39 AM Apr 2013

Austerity is hurting our health, say researchers

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/28/us-austerity-idUSBRE93R0G820130428

(Reuters) - Austerity is having a devastating effect on health in Europe and North America, driving suicide, depression and infectious diseases and reducing access to medicines and care, researchers said on Monday.

Detailing a decade of research, Oxford University political economist David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu, an assistant professor of medicine and an epidemiologist at Stanford University, said their findings show austerity is seriously bad for health.

In a book to be published this week, the researchers say more than 10,000 suicides and up to a million cases of depression have been diagnosed during what they call the "Great Recession" and its accompanying austerity across Europe and North America.

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Austerity.

If I never hear that word again, it will be too soon.




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