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Suicides, disease outbreaks up after EU financial crisis
By Maria Cheng, The Associated Press March 27, 2013
...Those countries that have slashed public spending the hardest ? namely Greece, Spain and Portugal ? have fared the worst medically.
"Austerity measures haven't solved the economic problems and they have also created big health problems," said Martin McKee, a professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who led the research.
He said worsening health was driven not just by unemployment, but by the lack of a social welfare system to fall back on. "People need to have hope that the government will help them through this difficult time," he said.
The paper was published online Wednesday in a special series of the journal Lancet...
Suicides, disease outbreaks up after EU financial crisis
By Maria Cheng, The Associated Press March 27, 2013
...Those countries that have slashed public spending the hardest ? namely Greece, Spain and Portugal ? have fared the worst medically.
"Austerity measures haven't solved the economic problems and they have also created big health problems," said Martin McKee, a professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who led the research.
He said worsening health was driven not just by unemployment, but by the lack of a social welfare system to fall back on. "People need to have hope that the government will help them through this difficult time," he said.
The paper was published online Wednesday in a special series of the journal Lancet...